Re: [T3] clutch tube broken loose.

[fess <fess-vwtype3.org@fess.org>]

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On Mar 26, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Keith Park wrote:

> Thats the problem with the journey to the darkside... you will be 
> unhappy
> unless you get the whole vacation package.
>
> 1700lb clutches will take out a lot in the clutch department,  ALL the
> following will eventually break:
> 1)the tube, as has happened
> 2)the arms that operate the throwout bearing, especially the pre-71 
> ones
> 3)the hook on the clutch pedal arm
> 4)The pedal stop in the floor
> 5)the clutch cable.
> 6)your left leg
>
> All need to be beefed up for a reliable clutch, and all this can be 
> done...
> BUT, I know some of us have looked into/implimented a hydraulic clutch 
> assy,
> this is alot of work too but it eliminates all the beefing up except 
> the
> release bearing arms and makes your left leg much happier.

I've been having some inkling that this might be a problem.

I believe that the PO already had the number 2. problem,
and has replaced the arms with beefed up arms.

but everything else needs the beef up.

What's the hydraulic clutch job like?  My mechanic seemed to think
there wasn't room in the front on a T-3 to do a hydraulic clutch.

seems, like I probably shouldn't just fix the tube from the
rear with a welded washer.  I'm pretty sure it's slipping forward.
It also already has an extension piece on the end, where either
the tube broke, or crept to far foward.

hmm.

--fess

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