Clutch Woes...

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

David,

You should be looking for one of the following:
- bad (broken) clutch cable
- broken clutch finger lever inside 5th gear housing
- a pushrod-sized hole in the release plate
- broken metal thing on the firewall that holds the clutch cable
- backed out pressure plate bolts

Less likely (but still possible) culprits:
- busted throwout bearing
- autoadjust cable that stopped wanted to adjust
- some sort of failure in the pedal cluster
- backed up flywheel bolts
- mechanical interference at the clutch lever on the otuside of the tranny

Aside from these failures I can't think of any other possible cause.

-Toby

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David Utley wrote:

> Well,
>    I need to draw upon the collective experience of the group, and NO, it
> has nothing to do with balancing
.  :-)
>
>    While driving a friends 82 VW pickup (gas), I was accelerating on the
> highway when all of the sudden, I heard a grinding coming from the tranny

> I pushed down the clutch, and it stayed there, and it popped out of gear at
> the same time
  Now that I am rolling, and with no pedal, I cannot engage a
> gear at all
  I coast to a stop, and get out and look under the hood,
> thinking the clutch cable is kaput
  Nope, it is still there, no problems

> Well, I can get it in gear with the truck off, start it, and limp it home

> If I start in 2nd, I can eventually get any other gear while rolling if I
> get the rpm right
  Once home, I notice there is a lot of slack in the
> cable, so I adjust that out
  No change, I still can not engage a gear,
> unless the truck is not running
  SO, I took it apart this evening, thinking
> the cast steel finger that actuates the T/O bearing behind the green cap is
> bad
  Nope, just fine
  What in the hell is wrong with this thing?
>
> Just for the record, I was farting-around when this broke, and the truck has
> been through more tough driving than Nina Hartley
  The tranny is an FF
> code, the engine is a 1.8 9.5 to 1 motor with stock CIS, if it matters
> (which it shouldn?t)

>
> Any and all ideas are MOST welcome
  I would like to fix this before my
> friend returns
  It is one thing to break it, and have it broken when he
> comes back, and another thing altogether to have broken it AND fixed it

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