Have someone watch the linkage on the slave cylinder when you depress the
clutch pedal. If it has full travel it will probably be your disk. You
might try depressing the clutch, putting it in gear, setting the park
brake and then trying to start your engine, if it slips or the engine
tries to start .. home run its the clutch disk assembly.
You may have reached the end of your clutch life (disk got too thin).
As long as you're getting the grinding in all gears its probably your
disk.
The bad news is when it grinds in only one gear and then begins locking
in a single gear, thats the slider or synchronizers.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:17:20 -0700 Pat Callaghan <patcal@QWEST.NET>
writes:
> Hi all,
>
>      I was driving home in my 82 air-cooled westy.  I came to a
> light & went
> to downshift & the thing would not go into 2nd. gear.  I finally got
> it to
> go & then it would not go into 1st. until I was almost stopped.
> This got
> worse as I got closer to home.  When I backed into the driveway it
> did not
> want to go into reverse without grinding.  I played with the
> shifting in the
> driveway with the same results.  There is plenty of brake fluid in
> the
> reservoir.  Any ideas?  The Bentley does not seem to be any help.
>
> Pat Callaghan
> 82 Westy
> Portland, OR.
> http://www.users.qwest.net/~patcal

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