[tcb] Re: engine/clutch
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 05:40:13 -0800 (PST)
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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