Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:50:52 -0500
Reply-To: Jaime Forero <jforero@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Jaime Forero <jforero@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Not able to engage any gear
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Anyone have the dimensions for this brass bushing??
Cheers
Jaime
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Rodgers
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Not able to engage any gear
What Scott said.......
Add to that the fact that there is a brass bushing that goes in the
flywheel that holds the felt seal in place. When the flywheels are sent
out to the machine shops for resurfacing, the brass bushing is popped
out, and never replaced. When the clutch and tranny are re-installed,
with only the felt washer being in place, with the bushing missing to
hold the felt in place, the felt is soon gone and the pilot bearing
begins to accumulate clutch material in it thereby wearing it out
faster. Though it is often said that brass bushing is not necessary, the
designing engineers felt that it was necessary, otherwise they would not
have designed it to be there. I vote for the engineers. Only one problem
- the part is NLA. So you really have to do some fishing, or begging and
pleading from all sources, or got to your friendly machine shop and have
them make you one or two. This bushing slides down on the pilot shaft,
and fits inside the flywheel, so that when all is together, the bushing
holds the felt in place.
John
John Rodgers
Clayartist and Moldmaker
88'GL VW Bus Driver
Chelsea, AL
Http://www.moldhaus.com
On 5/31/2011 9:48 PM, jaime forero wrote:
> 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
>
> _________________
> Jaime Forero
> jforero@sbcglobal.net
> Siempre Adelante!!!
> ÷óåçäá ÷ðåò³ä!
>
> -----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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