[tcb] Re: Main Shaft
- From: "Fred McDonald" <texasbluebus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:42:20 -0500
Thanks for the reply,
My brother is a very good mechanic but not a VW mechanic; I'm not a mechanic
but I have owned several VWs in my time and have some (not a lot) experience
with the quirkiness of the breed. He was very concerned that the shaft was a
little lose, he said "If this was a ford Transmission I'd be very worried
and would recommend we fix this." I told him that it has always been this
way, even before it had been rebuilt and as far back as I could remember my
past VWs were the same. I told him just to be safe that I would ask the
group.
On another subject,
In order to replace the main shaft oil seal we had to remove the throw-out
bearing. The spring clips that hold the bearing in place had a fine piece of
wire strapping them to the throw-out bearing leaver. Is this necessary, just
good practice, wouldn't bother? I'm not sure but I think Lyle Cherry did
this when he rebuilt my engine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sawyer" <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:28 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Main Shaft
>I agree with sammy, there should be some play in the input shaft.
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> Sammie Smith <slsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fred:
> My experience is that it has lots of play.
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> At 04:24 PM 10/27/2004, you wrote:
>>Hay everyone,
>>I'm in the middle of replacing the seal around the main driveshaft as it
>>exits the transmission. I have a question, Should the driveshaft be
>>absoultly stiff or does it tend to have a little movement?
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