Reply With QuoteFunny how your cars always seem to get you home isn't it Tim?
the old 8V and now the gearbox finally!
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Will have to come and have a look when im in Melbs in couple weeks.
Thats pretty awesome about the box lasting the 2 hour trip home haha!! good work VW!
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Funny how your cars always seem to get you home isn't it Tim?
the old 8V and now the gearbox finally!
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True!!!!Originally Posted by Jarred
It must just be that the car knows that I'll look after it & if it gets me home it will get good going over.
The 6 hr trip home from wagga with a severely blown head gasket comes to mind!
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...t=38088&page=2
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Funny. My old silver banger was a jealous bastard!
When ever I'd get another car, it would chuck a hissy fit & either start playing up or jinx the other car!
Especially when I swapped a spare mk1 for a 350ci Landcruiser "shorty" to be my daily & it blew up the first day I got it!
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Well I finally got enough motivation to get out into the shed & carry out what I thought would be a straight gearbox swap.
Not too be.
Once I removed the gearbox, I found bits & pieces of metal fragments inside the bellhousing & scratch marks all around the flywheel!
So off with the clutch & with a light I also found not only did I destroy the gearbox, I also destroyed the clutch drive plate!!!!!!
On with the pics
Think of your clutch plate drives your gearbox input shaft & from friction material drive section (outer section) is drives through a set of dampening springs & onto a metal star shaped item which then drives the input shaft.
Well I smashed up the metal star drive plate & nearly stripped out the dampening springs out of the housing too!
So after having a bit of a "what the f$#k do I do now?" moment, I moved onto stripping the gearbox to have a "captain cook"
What I found was no great surprise to me by the sounds the old gearbox was making but...
It stripped both 2nd gear driver & driven gear & also mashed up the layshaft out support bearing!
So all in all, pretty much screwed! No signs of the diff rivets letting go or any other bearing marks from little metal fragments getting through the oil.
So for now, I'll source another HD clutch hopefully this week & refit the trusty old diesel 4spd which I always resort too in times of need!
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Nice effort on the clutch Timmy...
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Cheers dude
Who was to know.
I've never seen a clutch let go like that. Not even reading through all the drag & horror stories on vortex!
This was also a HD Sachs clutch with the 3 drive tabbed pressure plate!
Depends on what I can get, but may just bang another HD one in. Don't have time to get one in from the states, as much as I'd really like to!
I was hoping the clutch would have lasted until I finally had the auto up & running, as there was no point buying a solid centred 4 puck racing clutch & only having it in there for a few month's!
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MIG the centre soildCIG clutch FTW.
Nice effort, I only managed a pressure plate.
Pete
79 MK1 Golf Wreck to Race / 79 MK1 Golf The Red Thread / 76 MK1 Golf Kamei Race Car
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79 B1 Passat Dasher Project
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hahahahaMIG the centre soild
Nice effort, I only managed a pressure plate.
Pete
didn't really think of this! Mmmmmm
Nah better not.
Remember the clutch spins at double engine speed (ie double the tacho reading), so if it was to let go, it would let go in a BIG way!
Plus I reckon the balancing will be way out!
I can be dodgey, but not "that" dodgey! I don't mind welding up diff centres though! hahaha
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Or to be a little more serious
Call Jim Berry.
PHONE: 07 3847 9999
ADDRESS: 26 GLADYS STREET
STONES CORNER QLD 4120
CONTACT: JIM BERRY HOURS OF OPERATION: Monday-Friday: 8.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Apparently he can make just about anything and is highly regarded.
http://www.motorsportworld.com.au/ou...utch/index.htm
Pete
79 MK1 Golf Wreck to Race / 79 MK1 Golf The Red Thread / 76 MK1 Golf Kamei Race Car
7? MK1 Caddy
79 B1 Passat Dasher Project
12 Amarok
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Thanks heaps Pete.
Think to save myself some time I may just order a clutch plate from work seeing as VW don't do kits for anything these days incl. headgasket VRS sets, I can just get a replacement disc.
Hopefully be Tuesday!
I would've loved to get a spec stage 4 solid centred setup. But I really need this thing going again ASAP
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