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On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:59, hisham bakr wrote: > Last night I was thumbing thru the Bentley manual as I prepare to drop my > engine and replace a squealing throw out bearing. Then, in the Engine > section, subsection 18-2, I find the heading "plastic facing ring noise" > which describes how to drill a 3/8 hole(!!!) into the bell housing to gain > access to the bearing via a lubricating tube and remedy the problem. > Has anyone actually done this? could the tranny crack in the process? This was a warranty repair back in the sixties. We sprayed them with a liquid moly-lubrcant. Use a long piece of about 1/8" copper tubing to reach the t/o bearing. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/