Re: [mk2] clutch problem

[frank <fish26133@yahoo.com>]

  Hi, Check the finger that presses the throwout
bearing. Someone was haveing them break on the 16v
list.

    Good luck FJ

--- foxxinabox@core.com wrote:
> as i gt ready to turn down the road to my parents
> house (luckily,
> where i work on my cars) i engaged the clutch. the
> pedal went down
> like normal, then i felt a little snap in the clutch
> cable and the
> clutch wouldn't engage. i managed to limp the car
> home. thinking it
> was the clutch cable, i inspected it and found no
> fault. i replaced it
> with a spare one anyway. still, no clutch. it's
> tightened properly,
> but the pedal still goes to the floor and the clutch
> won't engage.
> since i keep forgetting my bentley (need a note
> stapled to my forhead)
> i checked my haynes manual. it said the cable or the
> release bearing
> was probably the culprit. it also said that a
> collapsed spring in the
> pressure plate could also be at fault (hell no.
> don't like going
> there). the only thing i've done to the trans in the
> past couple days
> was replace an inner flange seal and drain and fill
> the trans with new
> fluid. and, since yeasterday, i wasn't having a
> problem with it. any
> ideas? i really don't want to do a clutch
> replacement, but if that's
> what it takes....
> 
> 
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=====
Later, F Jones
       87 16V Scirocco

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