Date:         Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:43:33 -0700
Reply-To:     lamusicamellama@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Leslie Shiaman <lamusicamellama@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Sight Correction: Pilot Bearing Trouble/Trying to figure it all
              out
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I should check my writing before sending this...sorry to repeat!

Last paragraph, second sentence:  "Do I not detect any drip when idling
for 20 minutes because no matter how long you idle you never get to full
operating temp and therefore I HAVEN'T gotten it to normal expansion, so
therefore no leakage if i do have a cracked head."

Hello All -

A couple people on the list have asked me how I know that my pilot
bearing is shot.  Well, I had been hearing a rattle just before fully
engaging the clutch.  Then one day at a traffic light (of course!) I
could not disengage the clutch (from neutral) to put her in gear.  So I
did the rolling start and shifted very roughly, because the clutch was
sticking.  So that would be the pilot bearing or would it be the
throw-out bearing?


By the way I have thought about my little intermittent coolant drip
problem and have wondered this.  Do I not detect any drip when idling for
20 minutes because no matter how long you idle you never get to full
operating temp and therefore I have gotten it to normal expansion, so
therefore no leakage if i do have a cracked head.  Sound right? or do you
reach op. temp after idling for 20 or 30 minutes?

Thanks,

Les
'84 Westy

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