Re: Ahh, The Joy.

["Mike VanAmburgh" <vwvr6r@hotmail.com>]

Ah, the memories.  1992 in Las Vegas the clutch cable on my 86 8V snapped on 
The Strip.  As others have mentioned, the car can be driven still.  When you 
get it fixed, practice shifting it without the clutch so you can do without 
the back ache if it happens again.  I drove mine 20 miles back to the hotel 
after it snapped.  Starting out sucks, but shifting isn't too bad on A1 and 
A2 cars.  Upshifting is easy, downshifting can be tricky.  The A3 and A4 
cars are a b*tch to shift clutchless.

Mike


>From: "joseph Trussell" <joetruss@hotmail.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Ahh, The Joy.
>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:03:21 -0600
>
>I need to vent a little.
>
>So, I'm sitting on the busiest stretch of I-25 in Denver yesterday during
>rush hour, and my $200 (well, now around $500) '85 Scirocco decides that
>it's as good a place as any to blow out the clutch cable.  Nothing like 
>that
>feeling, in 95 degree heat and in the middle lane of a packed, crawling
>interstate, of pushing in the clutch and getting the response of a wet
>noodle.
>I will say this:  pushing this thing is a lot easier than pushing my 
>Vanagon
>was.
>So I got her off the road, found that the cable had jumped out of its 
>sleeve
>above the plastic tube above the adjuster nut, cranked on four mini hose
>clamps to get it back in there, and had three more uses of the clutch.
>Almost enough to get me home.  Stopped on the side of another road, found
>where the cable had decided to jump out up by the firewall, and gave up the
>repairs (out of hose clamps) and started pushin'.  Thank goodness it's a
>flat part of town, and that I have a strong back!  An hour commute becomes
>three hours.
>
>By the time I got situated, all parts houses were closed.  Ahh, the joy.
>For a moment, I second-guessed my decision to sell my Vanagon and get back
>into the Scirocco mix.  Then I remembered that with the heads on my
>Wasserboxer as pitted as they were, losing valuable phosphate-free anti
>freeze at every single stop, I would have overheated and blown that thing
>days ago with this commute!
>I'm carpooling today...
>
>Joe T.
>'85 white Wolfsburg Scirocco
>
>
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