[Vwdiesel] When it rains...

[Val Christian]

Hydraulic clutch.  The vibration is there even lightly touching the clutch
pedal.  No vibration on the brake pedal.

> 
> When you say vibration on the clutch pedal, do you mean that you can feel it
> when you start to push it in?  Isn't the clutch linked by a cable like on my
> 91 Jetta. For a cable to transmit vibration it would have to be bad, I would
> think.
> Nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Val Christian
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:55 PM
> To: decker at toledotel.com; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] When it rains...
> 
> I had a bad casting on a VW spindle which caused me to go through a bearing
> every 30k miles., until I caught on.  This is different, but I have not
> sashayed the car side to side.  Tommorrow, if the snow is not too bad, I'll 
> do just that.
> 
> Wheel bearings are easy, and I actually have a couple on hand.
> 
> That doesn't explain the vibration on the clutch pedal.  Kinda of a
> irregular
> vibe...not like a VW (or at least the one's I've owned).
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hi Val;
> >     If the clutch or tranny has anything to do with it I'm out in left
> field
> > but to a Rabbit driver growling that stops when you do is usualy a front
> > wheel bearing. It will go many thousand miles after I hear it for the
> first
> > time untill I think if I don't change it something catastrophic will
> happen.
> > Brian Decker
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Val Christian" <val at mongo.mongobird.com>
> > To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:57 PM
> > Subject: [Vwdiesel] When it rains...
> > 
> > 
> > > OK, like I didn't have at least one problem emerging on my TDI.  Now I
> > > need some group wisdom.
> > >
> > > Symptoms: Growling, as in bearing, going down the road
> > > -appears to disappear without forward motion
> > > -clutch engages and disengages smoothly
> > > -clutch pedal has vibration on it, and does not have the "free play" it
> > > used to
> > > -had one instance on a 3-4 shift where the  transmission appeared to be
> > not completely synced.  That happened several days ago, and I attributed
> it
> > to me
> > > not noticing something, or doing something right (distraction)
> > >
> > > I'm thinking release bearing or bearing/fork  What are you thinking?
> > >
> > > Ideas?
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