.... not sure if my work did any good or not :/ I don't notice anything different......... but then again it hasn't been road tested.

To back up a bit, I rebuilt the tranny because sometimes the tranny had some trouble going into 1st and reverse gear. Now from the feedback from the board that I've gotten so far the reverse gear is a 'given' problem with must T5s. However the first gear I thought needed new synchros on it, so hence the rebuild....

When I first started the car up again I tried to back up off the ramps by putting it in reverse. Tranny wouldn't go into reverse. But then again the idle was running high (around 1800rpm). I shut the engine down and fiddled with the idle (fast idle cam was stuck) and when the idle was where it should be the tranny went into reverse....

But what bothered me about this episode was that it should've gone into reverse anyway (and I tried double-clutching it and going into 5th). A friend of mine had suggested that maybe my clutch wasn't releasing completely. I thought maybe that was a problem with the old but with the new clutch in it's doing it anyway. So now I think that there's a issue with the clutch linkage assembly. I've got the original '84 hydraulic clutch setup, and while the slave cylinder was replaced about 2 years ago the rest of the setup is original.

Is there any way I can measure the clutch travel and compare it with a factory spec to see if there's something going on with that? I'm hoping it's the clutch- while I'll do it if I must, I certainly won't be happy if I have to yank the tranny again....

Thanks!

 

The spec for the slave cylinder rod travel is .58"...dunno about the rest

Pete

 

thanks, Pete - later after making this post, I did find the blurb in the shop manual about checking the slave travel. What I'd like to know - not necessary to know, but it'd be nice - what the 'typical' travel is for a hydraulic system. It'd help me determine just how far off it is, even if it does meet the .58" travel.....

Also I'm sure I'm not the first one to run into this problem- just how typical is this problem for a hydraulic setup? I'd like to hear from others who have and what was done to correct it....