Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Vamps]

Assuming the clutch release is working (but see previous post about hydraulics ) it is very likely that the friction plate has rusted onto the flywheel.

I have done this (without causing damage) others may disagree....

Find enough space so you can drive round in circles, start engine, let it warm up. Stop engine, put it in gear (1st or 2nd), handbrake off, press clutch pedal and start engine. Drive slowly, round and round, with clutch fully depressed and alternate light throttle / closed throttle (nothing brutal) until the clutch frees itself.

Worked for me too a few times over the years

Old skool mechanics, done something similar in the distant past............

Like wise when I was an apprentice in a mate's car 

Always the best option........

[Andy B]

....
Always the best option........

I've long since forgotten what the car was or who it was that owned it. I know that I drove the car around HMS Caledonia one week end after the owner had said he was going to strip the gearbox/clutch to sort it. A couple of laps of 'fixed' it!       

[henryd]

....
Always the best option........

I've long since forgotten what the car was or who it was that owned it. I know that I drove the car around HMS Caledonia one week end after the owner had said he was going to strip the gearbox/clutch to sort it. A couple of laps of 'fixed' it!       

Done that many times,I think its the heat transfer more than anything else which breaks them free

[mantahatch]

You probably have the only one left in the UK. Bear in mind the early VAG cars did not run on unleaded petrol. From memory I think VW was the last manufacturer to go unleaded.

BL/Austin Rover/Rover were late to the party too

Yep, but not as late as a VW  Especially as BL went down the road of lean burn engines first. Strange how that seems to be coming back, or so I have heard, but no proof just hear say/