Unless you're hearing the noises coming from the pedal assembly inside the
van, the roughness is in the bell housing.

Sorry Ryan, but its probably dry grease and rust in the transfer shaft

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ryan Alfonso <vangina@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yo.  I hopped in my friends syncro and the clutch pedal is like butter.
> Mine is considerably stiffer and crunchified.  I've checked the archives
> about this issue, but now it's time to ask the masters...
>
> The patient is an '89 Westfalia, 205k, with a rebuilt 5spd installed about
> 75k ago with a HD Luk clutch kit.
>
> I'm sure the problem isn't hydraulic (swapped out master and slave a while
> ago to no avail).
>
> So is there a simple and obvious way to determine whether it's the pedal
> assembly, or the release rod in the clutch housing?  Perhaps that it comes
> and goes may be a clue?  FWIW, there isn't a lot of play side to side in
> the
> clutch pedal, feels like the brake.  When replacing the slave, I yanked
> around on the release rod and it had some slap in it, but didn't feel too
> loose.
>
> Statistically speaking, what's more likely to be the issue?  Do I rip out
> the dash, or drop the transaxle (again)?
>
> Grazzi,
> -R
>

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