Major clutch mishap!! Need InstyHelp!!!!

[Indiana_Red@hotmail.com (Ken B)]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "T Berk" <tberk@mindspring.com>
To: "Nate Mellom" <bronson@inwave.com>
Cc: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Major clutch mishap!! Need InstyHelp!!!!


> Nate, you will find I have been there, and done that. See below.
>
>
> Nate Mellom wrote:
> >
> > This is on the '84, 1.8 JH, 4K.
> > I was pulling to a stop sign, and I pushed the clutch in to downshift.
> >  It went about 1/4 of the way down, and them POP!  There was a
> > semi-loud, semi-metallic popping noise and the clutch pedal went
> > straight to the floor.  I put it in neutral, let the pedal up, it came
> > up good.  Pushed down, there is NO resistance.  My first thought was a
> > broken clutch cable, but I checked under the hood and the cable is fine,
> > the clutch actuator lever works and everything.  I can pull the lever up
> > by hand.  There were no symptoms, it just popped.  Some background:  I
> > did do a motor swap in February, and I re-used all the existing clutch
> > parts
>
> Doh!
>
> >(it was a recent clutch to begin with).
>
> Well,,,, OK then.
>
> <snip>
> >
> > HELP!!!!
> > Nate
>
>
> I THINK it's clutch pushrod punch-through syndrome.
>
> Another item you can check without taking the whole thing apart is to
> pop the green end cap off and have someone work the pedal while you look
> to see if the little fork in there is not slipping on the shaft attached
> to the outer arm/clutch cable.
>
> Thirdly I would verify the holder up at the top of the pedal cluster
> hasn't broken loose and/or gone through the fire wall.
>
> Lastly I wonder if you have a snapped cable, but I doubt that's it.
>
> Wait, wait, wait-
>
> > Pushed down, there is NO resistance.  My first thought was a
> > broken clutch cable, but I checked under the hood and the cable is fine,
> > the clutch actuator lever works and everything.  I can pull the lever up
> > by hand.
>
> You shouldn't be able to pull up the lever much at all, it takes the
> leverage of the pedal to do that. Hmmmm.

I agree here.  I have been playinbg around with my clutch cable, lever arm,
linkage adjustment and I read that and thought it did not sound tight.
The arm on mine is so ard to lift by hand that I thinght it was stuck and
had to have a helper verify that the arm was indeen moving when I depressed
the clutch pedal.  It was.  There is some serious leverage there.
Ken
1979 Scirocco  "McFly"
16v conversion - Engine in, now the hard part
Electrical  : (
VORTEX:  "Indiana Red"

>
>
> hth,
> TBerk
>
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