Seems like you would have learned from my bus-towing butt that pulling both the engine and tranny without taking apart and inspecting the clutch parts is not a real intelligent thing to do. It's your shop. Blame it on the shop. My motor went back in but the guessing game about how long/far I can drive before it sticks into whatever gear I just put it in is wearing a little thin. G2 On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:25:18 -0600 Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > So, I rebuilt this motor about 8 years ago. The tranny was built for the > engine. Remember that, it will come up later. > Nothing I did would get the freaking engine in the final inch. I called > The local VW guy and he came out and tried and tried. Then he said, 'We > should try a new clutch disk". I just happened to have one still in the box > that I had been too lazy to return to the parts house because there was > nothing wrong with my clutch, right? "How about a new pressure plate?" > Right here, brand new. Same thing. > So, we take off the clutch disk and it is being held together by one > rivet. ONE. Then we find that, damaged or not, it will not fit over the > shaft of the new tranny. the hole in the cluchplate is too small for the > mainshaft on the tranny. The new clutchplate fits over, no problem. We put > it all together and the engine popped right in. > So, all you experts out there, what the hell is this all about? Why would > two different trannys have different mainshaft sizes and what clutch would > have a smaller hole for it? And why did this take me three #@%^&*! days to > find it? > Now, I can go back to work to find the next damn thing to keep me and > Murray off the road. If I can't get everything ready by Wednesday, I will > read all about the Galveston adventure from here.