[tcb] Re: engine/clutch
- From: evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:57:21 +0000
I always have a project or two in the works. It keeps me from climbing towers
with high powered artillery. Many a night you can hear me in my garage weaving
a tapesty of four letter words. ;-)
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From: "Eric Woodall" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:41:11
To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: engine/clutch
It's happening right now at *my* house... ;-)
> Your right, That NEVER happens!
>
> evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Good luck with that!!!
>
> LOL
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> -----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.
>
>
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> -----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.
>
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