Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:57:41 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Ian Webb <iw8n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
Subject: 90 Westy WON"T MOVE!!!!
I need some ideas badly. I hope y'all can help me out. Friday I
drove my 90 Westy from on about a 125 mile trip on the in the
interstate, parked it, jumped out and have since been spending the
weekend with my girlfriend's folks. When I went out the the van to
fire it up a while ago, the thing WOULDN'T MOVE!! It ran OK, but
when I went to put it in gear, it *tried* to go forward and
backwards--I mean, you could feel the clutch engaging and the rear
end dropping as a result of the tourque on the engine/tranny, but it
wouldn't move. I crawled underneath to take a look a the e-brake
cable, and it was fine. I jacked up the rear driver's side and the
wheel spun freely. then I jacked up the pass. side and the wheel
moved maybe a 1/4 of an inch in both directions--clunk!--and it
wouldn't move. So I theorized maybe the brake was stuck. Maybe the
thing got heated up while on the interstate, got real hot, and when I
stopped everything contracted back down and stuck the brake to the
drum. So to simulate this (essentially an engaged e-brake), I jacked
back up the drivers side, set the parking brake and NO MOVEMENT at
all in the wheel--no 1/4 inch turn, no clunk!, no nothing. So it
sounds as if something is really wrong here. Anyone got any ideas??
Am I wrong about what might happen when an e-brake gets stuck from
overheating/malfunctioning? Is there something is the axle or tranny
or differentail that would let one side move and not the other? And
why manifest itself after a 2-hour highway trip? I looked in my
Bentley and got NO clues from it... And to make the problem worse,
when I pulled in the other night, I parked about 10 inches from a
fence, so I can *barely* squeeze in there to jack it up!!!
Help!!!
Ian
Ian Webb, Assistant Director
UVA Roanoke Center
Phone: 540-857-7922
Fax: 540-857-7936
ian_webb@virginia.edu
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