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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 15:29, timothy kuehn wrote: > Hey all. > > Another day, another issue. My clutch and/or gearbox are giving symptoms > which I've never encountered before. The car is VERY hard to shift - it > doesn't wanna go into gear when it's running. The clutch seems fine, it's > not slipping or jerky (like the clutch failures I've experienced in the > past) - when I do get it into gear, it grabs nice & hard, the transition's > smooth enough. > Just, sometimes the lever does not want to move, esp. into 1st & 2nd. > When the car's off, it moves easily, with or without the clutch depressed. > When we're running, the shifter works normally about half the time, and with > varying difficulty the other half. > Sometimes it absolutely refuses to go into 1st or 2nd - the trick I've > happened upon (symptoms only started yesterday) is to find 3rd, start to > slip the clutch, then it'll go into first no problem. > > In anyone's opinion, where do I start my troubleshooting? Clutch itself? > Cable? TOB? Shifter bushing/coupling? Windshield wiper motor? Horn fluid > reservoir? > I've got 2 weeks off, starting tomorrow - somebody tell me how you think > I'll be spending it? C'mon make my day, tell me you think it's something > simple. > If it seems to shift OK, when the motor is not running, but won't shift when the it is running, then the clutch is not releasing. It may be as simple as a bad clutch cable, of it could be a clutch cable tube broken loose inside the tunnel. It is also possible the the pilot bearing in the end to the crankshaft is bad. The first 2 can be done with the motor and trans in the car. The other requires an engine pull. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org