turbo diesel not tdi
I have a turbo diesel (in Canada they sold them). I asked VW dealer about the cable and they said it is supposed to be way above the spring thing that they call an over centering spring to help your pedal go all the way up and all the way down. I will look into it a bit more but I think I've solve my problem without changing the cable. You see my pedal stuck to the floor, I could lift it up with my hand but it didn't have any effect. I assumed it was release bearing, (notta) then I pulled off the tranny. I expected to see something wrong but didn't. I pulled everything off for inspection then while I was there I replaced the real oil seal on the engine then the oil pan gasket (with baffle), what a bugger that was, I had to drop the oil pump to get it off. Anyways, I say some off centre ware from the push rod on the release plate and the push rod seemed flattened on the end, and there seemed to be a bit of play around the push rod in the bell of the tranny. I put the pressure plate back on, new release plate, old retaining spring, new mini seal and bushing being it from around the pushrod. I put it all back together and nothing :dunno. After trying to figure out what was the problem I then dicided to look at the clutch cable, thus my post. BUT I was moving the shift leaver on the side of the tranny when something strange happened. I pulled it to the top of it's throw and it was hardly touching the release bearing (so no pressure to the rod, or pressure plate) I pulled a little harder to see if I could apply "some" pressure to the plate and then ....the leaver slipped. The clutch finger that pushes on the release bearing was broken :nana2: , so I've bought a new one and it goes in today, Thanks for all your reply's and I'll let you know how everything works.
