Have someone watch the linkage on the slave cylinder when you depress the clutch pedal. If it has full travel it will probably be your disk. You might try depressing the clutch, putting it in gear, setting the park brake and then trying to start your engine, if it slips or the engine tries to start .. home run its the clutch disk assembly. You may have reached the end of your clutch life (disk got too thin). As long as you're getting the grinding in all gears its probably your disk. The bad news is when it grinds in only one gear and then begins locking in a single gear, thats the slider or synchronizers. Stan Wilder 83 Westfalia Air Cooled
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:17:20 -0700 Pat Callaghan <patcal@QWEST.NET> writes: > Hi all, > > I was driving home in my 82 air-cooled westy. I came to a > light & went > to downshift & the thing would not go into 2nd. gear. I finally got > it to > go & then it would not go into 1st. until I was almost stopped. > This got > worse as I got closer to home. When I backed into the driveway it > did not > want to go into reverse without grinding. I played with the > shifting in the > driveway with the same results. There is plenty of brake fluid in > the > reservoir. Any ideas? The Bentley does not seem to be any help. > > Pat Callaghan > 82 Westy > Portland, OR. > http://www.users.qwest.net/~patcal ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. |
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