I would just add that if in fact your pilot bearing has broken it is a
critical failure. The result is that your input shaft can wobble around and
thrash the bronze bushing in front of the bellhousing. When that happens
you need a new clutch disk, because the old one is saturated in gear oil,
and a new bellhousing. It happened to me.

-- Gnarlie

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Rick Koller <kollerr@helix.nih.gov> wrote:

> Zoltan,
>                I had clutch functional weirdness a couple times over the
> years. The first was a pilot bearing failure. The clutch
> shaft was jammed into the crankshaft with the broken bits
> from the bearing. I was a rookie vanagon owner then and
> didn't know what was going on  until I pulled the tranny
> and discovered the problem.
>                The second time it happened, it turned out  a spring from
> the clutch friction plate had broken and its bits and
> pieces were jamming up the mechanism. I couldn't get a full
> clutch stroke as you describe. Again I didn't know what was
> happening until I pulled the tranny which is not too nasty
> a job in a 2WD, much more trouble in a Syncro IMO. Anyway
> hope this helps.
> Rick
>