Re: Clutch repair

["Paul Krucke" <pkrucke@logistics.calibersys.com>]

     I found it to be quite simple thanks to 'Poor Richards How to Keep 
     your VW Rabbit Alive' book in the John Muir style 'For the Complete 
     Idiot' book.  In it it describes making a special engine support from 
     above so you can support the engine and lower the trans by cranking 
     down a hook/bolt.  Then I made a flywheel brace like the VW tool shown 
     in the Bently books out of a flat piece of (non)angle iron.  Now I can 
     do a clutch on a MkI car 'in about an hour' (like lenscrafters :)).
     
     I have also been told, and can attest the transmission -fluid is not 
     that heavy, and one person I know puts a jack under the engine/oil 
     pan, unbolts the tranny, lowers the jack some to let it swing down to 
     clear the firewall...he lays on his back under the tranny like a bench 
     press and more or less wiggles it and lets it fall on his chest.  Well 
     not quite fall....
     
     -Paul
     --Current
     87 Scirocco 16v
     87 Jetta GLi
     90 Audi 90 Quattro 20v (for sale)
     63 Bug
     
     --Past
     92 Jetta
     87 Scirocco 8v
     84 GTi
     82 Rabbit Diesel
     81 Rabbit 1.7l
     81 Rabbit PickUp with 84 GTI powertrain
     74 Karmann Ghia
     73 Super Beetle
     72 Karmann Ghia
     69 Karmann Ghia
     68 Bug Cabriolet
     66 Bug
     57 Bug


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Subject: Clutch repair
Author:  Speriod Ducum <htay@indiana.edu> at TGATE
Date:    8/11/97 11:55 PM


Hi there,
     
does anyone knows of any manual for clutch replacement???????  it has 
been quite a trial trying to find any instructions to replace my own 
clutch........  would appreaciate any advice or comments??????  also, 
does anyone knows where i could buy the clutch kits, original or 
performance parts, at a reasonably fair price???
     
thanks
alfred
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