Don't forget the pilot bearing, no matter how difficult it is to remove.

Don't ask why I'm giving this advice.  :>(

Mike

> From: Stones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
> Reply-To: Stones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:22:02 -0400
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: What happened?
>
> 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.
>