79 bay with apparent clutch failure

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Re: 79 bay with apparent clutch failure

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:51 am

airkooledchris wrote:I know, I should have cleaned it first. I was eager to see this horrible failure and didn't think much of a dirty and failed part....


While I can't say how many foot pounds of force it required to push/pull the forks into and out of gear, it wasn't difficult to do. The only issue I had was in 1st because I kept pushing it against the selector if I didn't push the selector down far enough to get out of the way of my pliers.

Here is a little video I shot showing the different gear selections:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sYLtVXb_3M[/youtube]
Wow, video helps. Your detents are all good.

If the transaxle was running nice and quiet, I think you have a good transaxle (thus the clean bit) that was giving us fits because of the hockey stick ball.

The "potted palm" drain plug magnet showed evidence of many years, but your "last known good drive" is the more important indicator of the overall health of that transaxle.
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: 79 bay with apparent clutch failure

Post by Bleyseng » Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:00 pm

The drain magnet shows bad shifting/gear grinding so maybe the shift bushing has been going out for awhile. Put in a new ball and see how it shifts.
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Re: 79 bay with apparent clutch failure

Post by Gypsie » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:06 pm

Wow. I didn't expect that from those two...

Give it a try Chris. Fingers Crossed over here.
So it all started when I wanted to get better gas mileage....

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Re: 79 bay with apparent clutch failure

Post by Bleyseng » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:30 pm

KISS is my motto....
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70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
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Re: 79 bay with apparent clutch failure

Post by airkooledchris » Sun Mar 27, 2016 1:27 pm

It should be noted that I did replace the hocky stick ball and bolted this transmission back up. I reinstalled it into the other bus I had at that time (the one we stole the transmission out of to get done that day) - and I eventually sold that bus to a gentleman who flew out to CA and drove it all the way back to Detroit.
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