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Re: 87 16V clutch cable...



Ewan Hopkins wrote:
> 
> Every A1 based VW I've had has had a cracked firewall courtesy of the clutch
> cable - you can even buy a stick-on plate to repair it, it's so common.
> Someone f*%&ed up in the VW design department there.
> 
> Ewan Hopkins.
> 
> >From: Marc Getty <marc@getty.net>
> >To: Brooke Fairbanks <Brooke@minn.net>,        Scirocco <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >Subject: 87 16V clutch cable...
> >Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 22:09:23 -0500
> >
> >Brooke Fairbanks wrote:
> > > My clutch cable has become very grabby(not smooth) and I was wonderin'
> >if I
> > > can replace it with the manual adjustable vs. the auto adjustable
> >cables.
> > >  I believe that the pedal ends are slightly different...   True?
> >
> >Check where the clutch cable goes through the firewall, it may be getting
> >"grabby" there. Of the four times that my Jetta broke down in it's 50,000
> >mile
> >stay with me, once was because of the firewall.
> >
> >I was driving along in the dead of night in central nowhere when the small
> >steel gromit that holds the clutch cable secure as it passes through the
> >firewall decided to break. Now this is a once in a lifetime occurrence! The
> >clutch cable did not break, part of the firewall broke. I had to have the
> >small steel gromit welded back onto the firewall in order to get the clutch
> >cable to function properly again.
> >
> >This really says something for the reliability of volkswagens, they just
> >keep
> >going and going, so long that the firewall breaks due to metal fatigue
> >before
> >the car rusts out or the engine dies.
> >
> >-Marc
> >


Lots of quote above based on my reply but I wonder how much of the
firewall clutch cable guide failure is caused by East Coast/Snow Belt
accelerated deterioration. Here in salt free Cali I have never heard of
such a thing. Perhaps it's just delayed out here. Thx in that case for a
heads up retrofit.

TBerk
Tiered of reacting, looking forward to proactive as a way of life, not
just a buzz word.

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