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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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