But you only have 1 bus. I could probably, maybe, eventually keep 1 bus running. Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It's happening right now at *my* house... ;-) > Your right, That NEVER happens! > > evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Good luck with that!!! > > LOL > > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Brannan > Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:20:08 > To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [tcb] Re: engine/clutch > > My wife just wants all the cars at the house to run at the same time. > Just once that's all. > > sammie smith wrote: Will: Do you always do what your wife wants? > Well, if not, YOU BETTER! > > evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Denis you're waay to nice of a guy > to get stressed. > > The Bowden tube puts tension on the clutch cable and helps to prevent > clutch chatter. > > > I spent yesterday working on a ghia and the fastback... > > The ghia left us stranded Friday night after a clunk and no more steering > on SH121, officially the busiest in the state. Did I mention that I hate > ghias but the wife wanted it. > > > > After waiting for an hour and a half we had it on the flatbed. I thought > it was ball joints but after tearing into it the driver's side spindle > busted right after the threads for the wheel bearing adjuster. So ball > joints, tie rods and a new spindle. It's a case of the might as wells. > > Then I worked on the fastback. Oil cooler leak. The DPO Macguyverd the > mounting and a first.. Fiberglass insulation on the oil cooler to seal the > airflow. Doh! > > Now that's fixed but I decided to change the oil and install a sump I had. > After installing it out comes the oil from on top of the sump... !;:/@+#* > so I get to tear into that tonite.. > > Lesson? S##t happens and nothing can ever be ruled out. > > > > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Denis" > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:38:36 > To: > Subject: [tcb] Re: engine/clutch > > So, the problem I had is impossible. > > Only on a vintage VW would you be given a question where the answer is > "impossible", and yet I am holding reality in my hands. I believe my > original engine, that was built by Barry Blythe in Dallas, was built with > a fatal flaw and I had to rebuild it myself. (I still think he is an > outstanding builder, everyone has bad days). Anyway, his engines are > mostly drag engines, and he may have put in some strange combinations, > like Diesel Rabbit parts or parts from one of Rommel's staff cars that he > drove in Algiers. Something like that. > > Anyway, I am beyond that now. Now I am trying to figure out what the hell > is a Bowdin, Boodin,Boyden tube and I don't think that the clutch cable is > too short. The cable won't stick out the far side so I can't get to the > threaded freakin' part of the cable to stick out far enough to put the > required freakin' nuts on the end. > > I HAD TO BUY THE GUY WHO HELPED ME A SET OF SNOWCHAINS TO GET HIS BAY > WINDOW BUS UP AND OUT OF MY ICE COVERED ROAD. > > I COULD BE BUILDING SHIPS IN A #!%^* BOTTLE. I COULD COLLECT F#@!^*****! > BUTTERFLIES! OH NO. > > I'm sorry. Dan says that my life is complicated because I am an idiot, and > I have been since he met me. > > I have to go and read up about the darn Bowdin(sp?) tube. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: sammie smith: > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 7:22 PM > Subject: [tcb] Re: engine/clutch > > OK Denis, I do and don't have an answer on the clutch/input shaft problem. > I had to call my resident tranny guru. There are not different input > shafts on vw trannies. They are the same. Which means if your disc fit > on the old one it should have fit on the new one. However, the splines on > the old disc could have gotten buggered up somehow in the process of > either removing or reinstalling the engine. But; if a cluthch disc fits > on one input shaft it should fit on all of them. One exception; some > tranny builders will cad plate tranny parts, including the input shaft, > which makes the disc splines a tight fit because of the cad platting. So > I don't have an answer other than the female splines on the old clutch > disc had to have somehow got messed up. Again, according to my guru, all > input shafts are the same diameter with the same splines. > > sammie smith wrote: Whew! I don't have an answer on the clutch Denis, but > I'm going to try to find out. I did learn from experience though to > always check before installing engine that the clutch disc will slide with > ease over the mainshaft, but I just always assumed that when they didn't > that it was a fouled up manufacture of the clutch disc. Also (hindsight > is 20/20) but when they have been in any length of time, when you have the > engine out always replace the mainseal and the clutch disc, and probably > the pressure plate. There is too friggin much labor involved to go back > with questionable parts, particularly when they don't cost much. And Type > II splitties are notorious for eating up clutch discs. > > > ---------------- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.24/668 - Release Date: 2/4/2007 > 1:30 AM > > > > > ---------------- > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go : > > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.: > >