Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:17 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Transmission or clutch gone: Maybe better news
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There is no external clutch adjustment on the Vanagon. Maybe they didn't
know how to bleed it?
Sounds like the tranny is coming out regardless. Most likely the clutch was
beginning to fail and the extra force killed the slave cylinder.
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Anthony Egeln
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:01 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Fw: Transmission or clutch gone: Maybe better news
Thanks to everyone for their insight.......
Yesterday I had never tried to shift it while the engine was off. Today I
tried to shift it with the engine off and I can get all the gears with
little difficulty.
So this points to the clutch, right?
Just a few weeks a ago I had it in the shop for a gear oil flush, and they
said that the clutch slave was leaking. They replaced that but they kept it
an extra day because they said they couldn't get the clutch adjusted. Then
later, after I had picked it up I noticed a new sort of low-pitched whiney
noise only when the clutch pedal was released, i.e. it went away when the
clutch pedal was depressed. You may recall that I asked the List about
this.
So maybe something with the clutch adjustment may have doomed it?
Thanks, Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
--- On Sun, 8/16/09, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com>
Subject: Transmission or clutch gone
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 5:31 PM
Well, I had a catastrophic something failure a little while ago....
Driving down the road at 45 mph, and suddenly the car shakes like it went
over a pile of rocks.
Then it smoothed out and I went another 1/4 and tried to shift and couldn't
shift. I turned into a subdivision and pulled over. I can't shift it and
when I let out the clutch it seems like it is still in gear. Got a ride
home and now awaiting AAA to bring the van home.
My first thought was that the viscous coupling kicked in, because it
shuddered & shook so bad for that brief moment, and I never heard of a
clutch suddenly failing. So I'm wondering if its the clutch or maybe the
tranny granaded.
Any thoughts?
Second problem is I have absolutely no place here in north Florida to take
it for repair anymore. There was one shop but
for various reasons, I no longer have confidence in their ability to work
on a vanagon.
Thanks, Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)