[Vwdiesel] Clutch problems

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/2009 2:53:16 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk writes:

> Can you start engine out of gear with no issue?
> Does it shout at you only when attempting to put it in to gear?
> You could start it on a slope and drive it locally, changing gear without 
> the clutch and see if the gearbox is ok. Would only take a few hundred 
> yards 
> to check out, and would then tell you it's the thrust bearing/clutch plate 
> 
> only...
> 

  Of course doing that incurs a small risk that if something IS coming 
apart in there, that it could throw a hole in the tranny or bellhousing 
(which is still the tranny).
  It's gotta come out it sounds like, not sure it's worth "powered" testing 

of what it might be.
    Loren


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