Karl:
Sent the last one too soon.
Yeah, I did too, replace all that stuff. Bad science. I'll never surface
another flywheel unless I can hook a fingernail on the grooves. Only the
pressure plate if I believe it's lost spring pressure. ALWAYS grease the
pilot bearing, sometimes change it. Pretty much always change the t.o.
bearing, they are so cheap and kinda hard to tell what the parts inside
look like! Change the mounts if they are broken.
Somehow, I've had actually better a better record of success with a
somewhat less than anal policy of replacing parts. Kinda hard to say why
exactly. At least partly due to the poor quality of SOME replacement
parts. True, almost everything  original ( and parts from the dealer)
are the best quality. Maybe sometimes my clumsiness has compromised the
perfectly good replacement parts I just put in.
Overall, I adhere to the "not broke-don't fix it" philosophy. I'll still
never run out of things to fix. Not in 3 lifetimes!
Al Brase
69 doublecab, Vanagons, 2 splitties, other projects

Karl Wolz wrote:

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>Prior to replacing those yokes, I replaced: engine mounts, transmission
>mounts, TO bearings, clutch slave cylinders, friction plates and have
>had flywheels resurfaced, all at the advice of supposedly helpful
>list-members.  None of these helped a bit, but new yokes did the trick.
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