Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 09:04:20 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Manual tranny clutch adjustment,
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John's van has been plagued with a number of issues and his transmission was recently repaired with the R+R done at a shop. The way I see it should have come back right and if not the details should have been presented to make it right. I have seen trans overhauls that did not include clutch replacement or replacement of the operating shaft or bushings. His problem could be mechanical or maybe even just the hydraulics. It is possible for the pedal cylinder to fail in way that it just doesn’t move the clutch cylinder as it should either. Whatever after the trans repair it should have been right unless the customer did not want to pay to finish what was needed.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jim Felder
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 7:36 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Manual tranny clutch adjustment,
John, all this advice you have goutiness good, but it is all over the place--literally--mostly because you didn't give all that much to go on. It would be good if you could tell us all that was recently done: has the engine been out, and if so, what was done? I know you are fastidious about things like new bearings, etc, but do you know these things god done? In an event, if I didn't know anything about you are your car and you mentioned to me that your car was difficult to shift IN and OUT of certain gears, which is what I gather you are saying, I would tell you go get your linkage adjusted by professionals.
As you know, I do pretty much 100% on my vanagon work and have for many years. But I got into the game situation a you--or so it sounds, not knowing more--with my Diesel Westy. I sent the tradition out to be rebuilt and when I got it back the shifting was so bad I thought I had been scammed by the rebuilder. It wasn't that, of course, it's just that the car had been adjusted to accommodate for the wear that occurred over 230,000 miles and the linkage was just enough out of whack to make it not work in the lower gears. I finally gave up and had Johnson's put two mechanics on it, which is what it takes to do it right. It was perfect, so much so that I sent my 1990 Wolfsburg in right after it.
Best money I ever spent on a Vanagon, I think.
Jim
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:18 PM Angus Gordon <birdworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another tip on bleeding is to push fluid forward through the slave
> toward the reservoir. I use a pump type oil can filled with brake
> fluid. That can get rid of a stubborn air bubble.
>
> Angus
>
>
> > On Apr 15, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> >
> > Make sure it is fully bled. I think I mentioned this before when you
> first brought up the problem, did you try bleeding?
> >
> > Alistair
> >
> >> On Apr 15, 2016, at 10:36 AM, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm dissatisfied with my clutch adjustment on my new tranny. It
> >> seems to engage to soon in really low gears, and doesn't shift
> >> cleanly out of re verse and first, or go back in. Is there any adjustment I can make.
> Seems
> >> like there are always some things I'm better off doing myself,when
> possible.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> John
>
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