Interesting, and kinda figured as much. I imagine if
this part failed, there might be some bad sounds....
Good to know re: cheaper parts too.

Tranny/clutch fine on my Westy, but am sure will have
to replace/repair someday so if any internal linkages
need replacing, I won't buy the gold coloured, or
cheaper, parts.

Neil.

--- mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> The stock linkage parts inside the housing wear out
> but I have not seen
> one break suddenly. There are some poorly made
> aftermarket clutch cross
> shafts out there. These can and do fail inside the
> clutch housing, when
> a bad weld fails on one of the clutch release
> bearing support arms. I
> learned this on the hard way on a Syncro tranny
> after a month of it
> working fine. The inexpensive crappy replacements I
> have bought were
> gold colored and the welds looked shaky on close
> inspection. I would not
> use one again, though I still have some. If I was
> desperate I might try
> to add more weld and use one but I bought a few good
> quality ones to
> keep on hand.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> neil wrote:
>
> >..............
> >
> >Don't know how common it is for linkage to fail
> inside
> >clutch housing.
> >
> >Any takers on that one?
> >
> >Neil.
> >
> >
>

Neil Nicholson.
1981 air cooled Westfalia.
Cheap-o web site:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/tubanick/welcomewesty.html

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