Name that problem!

[sad_rocc at yahoo.com (Dan Smith)]

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by have I tried it, but it does move what seems to be the full range (maybe 2", measured from the end of the lever). Wheither it's doing anything or not, I don't know.
 
About 9mo ago I had to take it to a shop for exhaust work and the mechanic said that it "takes 2 men and a boy" to push in the clutch pedal. He said this was from the pressure plate wearing, so I'm wondering if it finally went.
 
Dan

"John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
Have you tried the arm for the clutch where the cable attaches? The push
plate in the flywheel may have given up.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Smith" 
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Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject: Name that problem!


> I was delivering in the 84 mk2 the other day when there was a loud snap
and the clutch pedal fell to the floor. That was the only noise, I popped it
into neutral and coasted it to a parking lot with no problem. I figured it
was a broken clutch cable but when I removed the cable yesterday, it was
fine. The little tube that goes from the firewall into the engine bay that
holds the cable in place had snapped it's weld, but it looks like that
happened awhile ago. I replaced the clutch cable with a different one and
tried to remove as much freeplay as possible, but the pedal stills goes down
halfway before meeting only slight resistance. The clutch lever on the
tranny does move it's seemingly full range of motion. I haven't been able to
start it and see what happens as for whatever reason the starter has decided
it doesn't want to do anything.
>
> Might as well ask about the starter too, now that I think about it. Car
gets full power, idiot lights come on like when you have the key in run but
the car isn't running. In the start position, there is a clicking sound that
sounds exactly like when you have a blinker on. Starter doesn't even try.
Absolute zip from it, and it was fine before the clutch died. I tried
whacking on the starter but that didn't do anything. All I can think of is
maybe I knocked something while trying to get the clutch cable to attach to
the clutch?
>
> Assuming problem #1 is due to a clutch assembly failure, can I pull the
clutch off my FF tranny and swap the whole assembly in? This car isn't worth
a new clutch, but I was wondering if there was any 1 time use bits.
>
> TIA,
> Dan
>
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