Re: 87 16V clutch cable...

["Ian Smith" <dubdubdub@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>>From: "Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>
>To: Ewan.Hopkins@computeraid.co.uk, marc@getty.net, green536@hotmail.com,  
>Brooke@minn.net, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: 87 16V clutch cable...
>Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 00:33:57 PST

>No
>offense, but dont attempt to question my posts  about repairs that i say i
>have done 2 days ago. Take care all!

Hang on a minute - why don't you take a bit more time to read what I said 
instead of giving me that patronising BS.   I never mentioned any sleeve - 
that was someone else - & I wasn't trying to suggest that the repair you had 
done was incorrect - I was just stating the facts, as far as I have seen 
them: in every case I've seen, the bulkhead was split by the stress of the 
cable sleeve bracing against it. period.  I can tell the difference between 
the bulkhead & the pedal assembly, and I'm not even a qualified Ford 
mechanic, never mind VW! Perhaps this sleeve normally braces the bulkhead, I 
don't know.  IME, the plate repair works fine, assuming you do it properly 
and presumably involves considerably less labour than replacing the pedal 
bracket.  I admit the stick-on version is really just a temporary fix but a 
propery bolted/welded repair works fine and lasts - all mine have.  If it is 
really down to a sleeve on the pedal bracket then why bother fixing it if 
it's only going to break again a few years down the line? And you still have 
to fix any split in the bulkhead regardless.

One possible cause of confusion here is that I'm talking about RHD cars - i 
don't know what the differences are in the pedal assembly/cable arrangement 
but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bodge.  It's a while since I last 
looked but I don't remember any sleeve. The cable appeared to come straight 
through the bulkhead, with a sloping faced grommet on the cable sleeve end 
locating in the bulkhead hole,  and hook over the top end of the pedal. 
Looking at ETKA doesn't help much and I don't have a manual to hand so I 
can't verify what I'm saying.


Ewan Hopkins.

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