On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Gary E Thaxter wrote:

> Hey everyone.  I hate mondays.
> 
> I had a clutch put in my 85 transporter at the dealer (world's WORST VW
> dealership (name whithheld))

Now, now Gary.  One dealer is not necessarily the world's worst VW dealer
- as far as I can tell, they're all horrible.  (Want to hear about my $1,200
fuel injection job to fix a $50 part?)

>                              and I guess they didn't put a new pilot
> bearing (supporting the input shaft for the trans.) in when they did so.
> Anyway it disintegrated after a while and my shaft got kind of chewn a bit.
> Anybody know how much play it can have in the bearing? I doubt any, but
> what kind of work (and cost) is it to replace the shaft?
> 
I don't know what play is allowed.  If the shaft really got "chewed
up", then "play" is probably not the issue here.

Looking at Bentley's, it doesn't seem like too difficult a job to remove/
replace the main shaft: Drop trans, seperate clutch housing from trans
proper (6 bolts), remove a circlip, push reverse gear backwards and screw
out main shaft.  No special VW tools or anything!

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Tom Young                young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549     '81 Vanagon
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