<VV> Clutch Saga Continues

[Lonny Clark]

Could be something simple, like the engine end of the cable slipped to a
different part of the lever that it pulls on. On my car the thing that the
clutch connects to is bent, like it hit something pretty hard at some point
in the past. I don't know what it's called, but it looks like a barrel with
2 levers and a grease fitting. The cable pulls it, and it pulls the rod
connected to the clutch fork. Also, if one end of it came loose, it would
change your adjustment pretty dramatically.

Good luck.


On 7/22/06, Tim Verthein <minoxphotographer at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> OK, it stopped raining long enough to get out and have a look. All the
> puleys in the passenger compartment look perfect...new in fact, as does
> the cable. I pulled the cover on the floor/firewall under the dash and
> tried to follow the cable down to the bottom, where it appears to be OK
> at that pulley too, although I can't *really* see in there.
>
> Backed the car up on the curb in the parking lot..got under, and
> adjusted the slack out of the cable and it seems to be OK. I see no
> indication of the cable itself going to heck on me..of course I haven't
> pulled the pan under the car to get in and look, but at the ends and
> the pulleys under the dash everything looks groovy.  pedal feels much
> better and I can easily shift.
>
> Then..decided..what the heck..long as it's on the curb, and there's a
> NAPA two blocks away, me n the wife walked up to get some spray lithium
> grease..figured I'd hit the various linkages and what not under the car
> while it was handy....and on the walk back it starts pouring rain
> again!  So we get back to the hotel, soaked..I climb under and give it
> all a good spray while laying in the running water!  Now drying off,
> changing, and test drive commin' up.  Plenty of Yenko guys
> arriving..and if it gets nice out, may get it up in the air somehow and
> have a close look at the pulley at the floor at the front of the tunnel
> pan, but from what I could tell from above it was OK there too.
>
> Just bugs me how suddenly it would get so far out of adjustment. Or is
> this something that can happen? Or can it happen gradually until it
> gets to the point where one can notice it?
>
> Tim..drying off in Twinsburg
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