RE: Clutch stuff -- Part deux

["Iain Atkinson (ETL)" <iain.atkinson@etl.ericsson.se>]

Kurt,

Give it up the bearings hosed ? Replace the whole lot


Iain

HTH

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Kurt Wesseling [mailto:kurt.wesseling@nexusmgmt.com]
		Sent:	16 June 1999 22:59
		To:	Audi Q-list
		Subject:	Clutch stuff -- Part deux

		Well, I still haven't replaced that clutch that many of you
suggested I
		should.  I keep thinking, "what if it's something else?"
(hope-hope-hope)
		You may recall I had a pulsating clutch pedal beginning
about a month ago
		and a kind of "loose change" rattling noise--but no slippage
at all.  Still
		doesn't slip.

		The pulsing has inexplicably stopped, but the rattling has
now graduated to
		a high-pitched squeeeeeeeeal at the beginning  and end of
the clutch pedal
		range of travel.  The unrealistic part of me keeps hoping
it's just some
		kind of linkage problem.  The other, costs-a-lot-of-money
part of me, says
		the throw-out bearing has gone dry.

		"Sure sounds like the kind of squeal a dry bearing makes,"
he whispered in a
		voice that was at once sorrowful and discouraged.  8-p  Not
much point in
		replacing just the bearing, is there?

		So, I need a few of you to tell me, "give it up, Kurt, the
bearings hosed.
		Replace the whole works"

		Thanks,

		--K
		1989 200TQ
		137k miles