[Vwdiesel] Flywheel resurface

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/22/2006 6:06:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
quantum-man at hotmail.co.uk writes:

> >May I be the first to welcome you back Logi... Oops it's been so long I 
> >forgot your name ;o)


  "Q" should suffice.  ;-)

> 
> How often do clutches out live the life of a car?
> Do they wear quicker on a diesel?
> Is there a cure for the dreaded shake when a diesel stops?
> I should think that's one of the few benefits from a transverse setup.
> Regards
> Mark
> 

  Not often.  I was asked to do a clutch many years ago, in a 914. 
>From the sounds of it that family got about 30K out of a clutch!  They 
had just done one or two others.
  My experience is that a diesel clutch tends to last longer.  You don't 
need to slip it as much to keep from killing it.  All that low end torque.
  Stop and shake sounds more like soft motor mounts.  Never noticed 
it in the Dasher nor the 5000, both longitudnal.  Dad's Cummins tends to 
a tad but then it stops so fast you get a little sneeze out of the serpentine 

belt nearly every time.
     Loren