Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:12:07 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Not able to engage any gear
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The problem is that there seems to
have been a felt with grease that was not installed when they replaced the
clutch and the lubrication dried up. "
There is a felt dust seal for the pilot bearing in waterboxer vanagons.
The felt is not a sourer of lubricant, it' just keeps clutch dust out of the
pilot bearing's small rollers.
I suppose it helps keep grease in the pilot brg too, but I'd say the main
function is to keep clutch dust out of the pilot bearing little rollers.
I find those felt seals missing commonly ...and clutch dust will eat out the
pilot bearing in a couple of years without it being in place.
Though it doesn't always cause failure to disengage cleanly when the pilot
bearing rollers are just rusty dust remaining.
----- Original Message -----
From: "jaime forero" <jforero@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Not able to engage any gear
I had a similar problem not long ago. The part of the transmission shaft
that goes into the fly wheel froze to the flywheel and was effectively
rendering the clutch useless. My mechanic dropped the transmission lubed
the shaft and flywheel and all fixed. The problem is that there seems to
have been a felt with grease that was not installed when they replaced the
clutch and the lubrication dried up.
Cheers
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Jaime Forero
jforero@sbcglobal.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Kevin Plichta
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:09 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Not able to engage any gear
Looking for some wisdom.
My 91 stock manual, I can not get it to engage in any gear while to motor is
running. If I start it with the clutch to the floor and in 1st it acts like
its engage (wants to jump forward).
I have check the master and slave clutch cylinders and they are not leaking
and seem to move when the clutch is pushed down. Seems that with the motor
running makes it not want to go into any gears and the motor off goes easily
into all the gears? What is different when running or not?
Thanks for your help.
Kevin Plichta
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