Name that problem!

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

The actual arm on the transmission is easy to move?  If so, your gonna be
pulling the tranny to fix this.

A: Arm broke
B: Finger that pushes on the push-rod cracked and bent
C: Push-rod punctured the pressure plate, plate. (whatever that damn thing
is called)

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

Dan Smith said:
> It does move from it's resting point to about 2" up when pulled. When the
> cable was removed, I remember that it did sag down about an inch. It is
> very easy to move.
>
> Dan
>
> "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
> does it have a range of motion? Any freeplay, too easy to move? The rod
> may
> have punctured the plate.
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Smith"
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Name that problem!
>
>
>> 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" 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"
>> To:
>> 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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