Hey Scott.

Yah sorry. The lever that clutch slave cylinder pushes down. I saw COL
(clutch operating lever) in the archives so thought it a common
Vanagon term.

Re: stuck levers. My first "big" job was rebuilding the clutch
housing. That lever was STUCK. This time I got lucky. One easily
removed was enough. But two?  <grin>  They pulled off like butter. I
was really surprised.

Re: welds. Yah I was surprised. I thought to add welds with my 110 AC
MIG, but metal is thick. The weld would likely only be superficial at
best. Maybe not. It should penetrate *some*. I guess VW figured that
since arms only push out the throw out bearing, they only need a weld
at, uh, the top of each arm.

Likely it's fine. I wasn't beating it to death to get the arm/bushings
out. But they were tight. I thought I was going to destroy the plastic
bushing.

Neil.

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> notice how puny the welds that join the forks to the shaft are.
>
> there's a re-welded version with full welds.
> I haven't seen any of the stock welds fail, but they do look rather
> 'partial' the way VW built it.
>
> don't know what a COL is ...
> nothing fitting that pops to mind.
> Talkin' about getting the lever off the end of the shaft ???
>
> I have seen that lever absolutely WELDED ...as in solidly fused from
> corrosion, �to the crossshaft.
> Nothing short of cutting it off with a torch would get that throw-out lever
> off the crossshaft.
>
> scott
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "neil n" <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 5:29 PM
> Subject: Clutch Cross-shaft Question
>
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Lucky me, got two different clutch cross shafts out. Will use best
>> parts of each.
>>
>> One cross shaft measures and looks better at outer end. No marks on
>> forks. It's better. But....
>>
>> I used an open end wrench and judicious hammer blows to knock the
>> "better" cross shaft out. I didn't bend the fork but am curious if
>> bangin on it might have weakened it.
>>
>> Risky to use? Welds still look ok. Just minor scratches from wrench.
>>
>> btw. I'm sure the pro's and hold hands have better ways, but on 2 old
>> crusty COL's, found a good way to remove them, transmission OUT of
>> Vanagon. The shaft has to be partway out to do this.
>>
>> Small Pittman arm puller with 22mm open end wrench as backing slipped
>> over exposed part of shaft. (my Pittman arm too small). Drill a divot
>> OC for Pittman arm point and off ya go. And entire installed clutch
>> slave bracket made for a nice wrench brace.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"
>>
>> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>>
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
>
>

-- 
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

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