[tcb] Re: Main Shaft

the wire is to hold the clips in place while you are putting the throw out 
bearing back in. trying to hold the bearing and get the clips in place are a 
real pain in the back side. as long as the wire is not interfering with the 
operation of the bearing, leave it there.
 

Fred McDonald <accessibility's@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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" 
To: 
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 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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