[tcb] Re: The engine is IN!
- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:49:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
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.
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