Date:         Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:49:01 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Clutch Judder
Comments: To: Don-Bolt@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
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Your shift linkage may have "had corrections" with the installation of
the new mounts. IE got everything lined up. I'd try the linkage
adjustments and re-bleed the slave cylinder again.
Your front tranny mount needs to be in the center and not hanging low in
the loop.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:04:22 -0500 Don Bolt <Don-Bolt@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
writes:
> Hello to the list.
> I need some advice.
> We have a 82 Air Cooled Westfalia with 214,000 miles.  Pulled the
> engine to find the cause of clutch judder.  Found a chewed up pilot
> shaft & bearing and wobbled out pilot shaft seal.  Got the new parts
> installed and also replaced the 4 rubber engine mounts as well.
> Before raising the engine I bled & flushed the clutch slave cylinder
> (very easy access at this point)  Now got everything back together,
> fired up the engine just like down town, runs great.  Now lets check
> it through the gears before I put the wheels back on.  Now Edsel
> Murphy seems to have snuck in quietly.  With the engine shut down,
> we can shift all gears.  Engine running, 1st gear is fine, 2nd gear
> is a little difficult, 3rd gear is difficult but with pumping the
> clutch pedal 4 times, could get it.  Never could get 4th gear,
> reverse sounds like a coffee grinder.  Could not get it at all with
> the engine running.  It has been pedal bled and vacuum bled.  The
> slave is 6 years old and the master is 11 years.  I flush all
> hydraulics annually down here in Florida.  The travel as measured at
> the slave cylinder cup contact on the clutch to bearing arm is about
> 14 - 15 mm or 9/16 inches, which doesn't seem like very much travel
> to me.  I am unable to find any spec for this.  Now there is slight
> evidence that the master cylinder is leaking.
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Don Bolt
>
>

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