Search messages and discussions

Search preserved mailing-list messages and current email and website contributions. Current posts are searchable before weekly archival. Recovery gaps remain possible. Words are matched together; try fewer terms if needed.

Page 1: 23 results shown for Clutch cable wing nut.

Source-balanced relevance: matches from both collections are interleaved, with source dates breaking ties. Restoration time is not the original posting date.

• Clutch cables
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Sep 1995 15:13:27 -0700
  ...I got a new clutch cable for my >bus, and it had larger threaded end for the wing nut. The original one >was a...
• how to buy a clutch cable
  Historical mailing list - nick mcree
  Mon, 5 Sep 1994 22:20:56 -0500 (CDT)
  ...No replacement wing nut, and no extra pin which connects the cable to the clutch pedal. Damn it. So I replace the cable anyway...
• '70 Clutch Cable Clevis Pin failed!
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 28 Apr 1996 20:31:40 -0700
  ...A bolt-and-nut would wear both the lever and the end of the clutch cable, and you've have to have 'em with...
• Clutch Got Soft
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:32:48 -0400
  ...cooled buses with a turn of the wing nut at the end of the clutch cable. Please Help, I have to drive my 3...
• clutch adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Rebecca Lowry
  Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:04:58 -0800
  ...clutch? I've adjusted the clutch on a 76 bus before. But our vanagon has no wingnut down there. there is a nut where...
• '71 Clutch Cable
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Wed, 20 Mar 96 16:14:57 UT
  ...a new wing nut. About 2 months ago the clutch started to feel strange -- kind of stretchy/springy and then the clutch began to...
• '77 Bus (with 78 Engine) Clutch pedal doesn't return
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Walters (Volt Comp) (Exchange)
  Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:50:26 -0800
  ...I adjusted the wing nut and took all the slack out of the cable and the pedal still had several inches of slop in...
• Re: clutch adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:19:25 -0800
  ...clutch? I've adjusted the > clutch on a 76 bus before. But our vanagon has no wingnut down there. > > there is a nut where...
• Clutch Tube Replacement
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 Nov 1995 20:58:42 -0800 (PST)
  ...I made a special wrench for tightening the old style clutch cable nut. I broke a check 13mm and welded it back together at...
• Re: '77 Bus (with 78 Engine) Clutch pedal doesn't return
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:05:20 -0500
  ...I adjusted the wing nut and took all >the slack out of the cable and the pedal still had several inches of >slop in...
• Re: '77 Bus (with 78 Engine) Clutch pedal doesn't return
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Diebolt
  Mon, 02 Dec 1996 17:39:46 -0500
  ...I adjusted the wing nut and took all >the slack out of the cable and the pedal still had several inches of >slop in...
• How I got home from work (broken clutch cable)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:30:53 -0800
  ...tire, and reach in and unscrew the wing-nut on the back end of the clutch cable. The problem so far: I'm wearing...
• Re: Clutch Cable
  Historical mailing list - Chris Venama
  Wed, 10 Aug 94 09:28:49 CDT
  ...When you get ready to tighten up the wing nut, hold the end of the cable so it won't twist around. You might...
• Re: clutch - help
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:44:54 -0600
  ...When I replaced mine recently, I could barely get the wing nut retainer/adjuster fully onto the end of the cable. After a couple...
• Re: Self Adjusting Clutch
  Historical mailing list - Will Wood
  Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:24:49 -0700
  ...wing nut. ---------- > From: kenneth d lewis <kdlewis@juno.com> > To: Multiple recipients of list <vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu> > Subject: Re: Self Adjusting Clutch...
• Re: Clutch Cable Replacement??
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 21 Nov 94 10:37:48 PST
  ...There's a wing nut on the clutch end which has to come off. The clutch pedal/ lever assembly is held in by two...
• Re: Clutch Got Soft
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:20:48 -0700
  ...cooled buses with a turn of the wing nut at the end of the clutch >cable. Please Help, I have to drive my 3...
• RE: Clutch Cable
  Historical mailing list - Armstrong, Charles L.
  Wed, 10 Aug 94 11:08:00 cdt
  ...When you get ready to tighten up the wing nut, hold >the end of the cable so it won't twist around. You might...
• Austin Vee Dee bad motor #3
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 16 May 1996 04:22:51 -0400
  ...The first circlip took off the arm that the clutch cable winghut pulls against. a spring comes off with it, then a cover piece...
• Re: My Vanagon's gone, and so am I!!
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:07:59 -0800
  ...And the dreaded clutch cable! I still have thumb numbness(thumbness) from years of turning clutch wing nuts with my thumbs . I wish I...
• Matt's world tour
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:19:52 -0700
  ...5) Re-check the clutch cable to make sure there's real free play- back-off the wing-nut until 1/16 of an...
• 2ND DATE, LOVE AND HELL
  Historical mailing list - Erick Sowder
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:00:00 -0400
  ...clutch lever on the transmission and told her to release the clutch, this took pressure off the clutch cable. I adjusted the wing nut...
• Volkswagen tool list for 1963-1967.(long)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Oster
  Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:10:12 -0800 (PST)
  ...2 Oil cooler tester VW 665 Oil pump pilot VW 667 Clutch cable adjusting tool Additional Workshop Equipment: Valve spring tester Engine test stand...