At 10:19 AM 4/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Volks,
>Sunday ,when I got back from Everybus towing "The Love Bug",( which is
>similar to a Scamp)  my '80 Vanagon would go into gear but just rev
>up.  If I really gave it some rpms, the vanagon moved a bit.  I thought
>the clutch went and plan to replace it this weekend.  I noticed two days
>later, that the grass was dead where the bus was having difficulties
>moving.  Any ideas as to what may have happened?  Thanks!

The dead grass is the give away...  It's like crop circles.  The martians
have burnt out your clutch and you'll need to replace it. So long as you're
going in that far, I'd suggest replacing the throw out bearing as well,
it'll cost you an extra $70 or so, but you won't have to be dropping your
transmission in 6 months to replace it then when it fails...  My theory is
that so long as you've got something open to a certain point, replace all
of the parts that wear out that you can get to and they won't get a chance
to wear out.