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Subject:Re: Hanging Clutch Disc
From:aatransaxle
Date:Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:17:32 -0800

It is a Vanagon with a Zetec in it...
For example, he moves his boat slowly up his driveway kinda feathering the
clutch and it hangs up..
Got me..I have tried to make sense of it several times...

Daryl of AA Transaxle
(425) 788-4070
aatransaxle.com
86 Syncro Westy
Zetec in the trunk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Allan" <ian.allan@BMTS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: Hanging Clutch Disc

> Season's Best to Y'all,
>
> I need advice before I pull apart my engine/transmission to attempt to
> solve a clutch/shift binding problem. Here is the issue. When I
> "feather" the clutch to creep ahead or creep in reverse then the
> clutch disc will  not fully release. ie depressing the clutch pedal
> does not fully release the disc. My cure is to turn off the engine,
> horse the shifter into neutral, restart the engine, blip the throttle
> several times and then USUALLY all is well again until the next time I
> have to "creep".  The clutch pedal feels absolutely normal when this
> disc hanging/shift binding occurs. Pumping the clutch offers no cure.
> Yet in normal driving the disc hanging/shift binding never occurs.
>
> Ian Allan
>
> 94 Eurovan Westfalia
> 86 Syncro
> 85 Westfalia/Bostig
> 02 Jetta 1.8t
> 90 Audi 90Q
> 02 Duramax 2500