On 9/26/2012 7:23 PM, Tom Carchrae wrote: > That said, being a green-horned vanagon owner, I find the clutch on > mine very particular. It is like no other standard I've driven. If I > am not very careful in letting out the clutch slowly, it will shudder. > I compensate and I can drive it smoothly, but I wondered it if this > is normal for the 'torquey' vanagon. > > I have not worried much about it because I have had two specialist VW > shops drive it and neither mentioned this as a problem. > > Tom Some years ago, my '85 had a really bad shudder when starting off. I completely rebuilt the clutch (resurfaced the flywheel, new clutch disk, throwout bearing, and seals, etc). That did the trick. No more shudder. MIke |
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