Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:09:33 -0500
Reply-To: Ian Allan <ian.allan@BMTS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Ian Allan <ian.allan@BMTS.COM>
Subject: Re: Hanging Clutch Disc
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Thanks guys.
Yes the van has Zetec power but this seems to be the only instance of
this sort of issue so I don't think that it is Zetec related. The
clutch set and pilot bearing were replaced when I installed the engine
about 10,000 miles ago. The first instance of the disc not fully
releasing did happen early on but unless I feather the clutch to creep
under load operation is normal.
To answer Edward if I experience this condition and I turn the engine
off, leave the transmission in gear and depress the clutch and attempt
to restart then the van will move on the starter.
Although "pumping" the clutch pedal when the disc does not release
does not help and the pedal feels normal, I have ordered a new master
and slave as this stuff is almost 24 tears old. So that should take
the hydraulics out of the equation.
Ian
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:41:12 -0500
> From: Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
> Subject: Re: Hanging Clutch Disc
>
> Interesting. Since no amount of clutch pedal operation frees it, and
> it doesn't do this in "normal" operation, that points to pilot
> bearing in my mind. When this happens and you turn off the engine,
> can you restart it with it still in gear and the clutch pedal
> in? What happens differently in the clutch system when you feather
> like this? Does this put some kind of lateral force on the pilot
> bearing/mainshaft? Is there anything in the equation added by the
> zetec? They use the WBX flywheel don't' they? I've just added more
> questions to the dilemma!
> Edward
>
> At 12:17 PM 12/28/2008, aatransaxle wrote:
>> It is a Vanagon with a Zetec in it...
>> For example, he moves his boat slowly up his driveway kinda
>> feathering the
>> clutch and it hangs up..
>> Got me..I have tried to make sense of it several times...
>>
>> Daryl of AA Transaxle
>> (425) 788-4070
>> aatransaxle.com
>> 86 Syncro Westy
>> Zetec in the trunk
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ian Allan" <ian.allan@BMTS.COM>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:15 PM
>> Subject: Hanging Clutch Disc
>>
>>
>>> Season's Best to Y'all,
>>>
>>> I need advice before I pull apart my engine/transmission to
>>> attempt to
>>> solve a clutch/shift binding problem. Here is the issue. When I
>>> "feather" the clutch to creep ahead or creep in reverse then the
>>> clutch disc will not fully release. ie depressing the clutch pedal
>>> does not fully release the disc. My cure is to turn off the engine,
>>> horse the shifter into neutral, restart the engine, blip the
>>> throttle
>>> several times and then USUALLY all is well again until the next
>>> time I
>>> have to "creep". The clutch pedal feels absolutely normal when this
>>> disc hanging/shift binding occurs. Pumping the clutch offers no
>>> cure.
>>> Yet in normal driving the disc hanging/shift binding never occurs.
>>>
>>> Ian Allan
>>>
>>> 94 Eurovan Westfalia
>>> 86 Syncro
>>> 85 Westfalia/Bostig
>>> 02 Jetta 1.8t
>>> 90 Audi 90Q
>>> 02 Duramax 2500
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