VP Manual Problems

[hound]

Hey guys, hope you can help me out here.

I have a 92 VP 5 speed, and yesterday I noticed that there was a mild belt slipping type nose as i depressed or lifted the clutch, disappearing when I engaged the gears. Obviously I did nothing about it, could wait for another day. Anyway, on driving to work today whilst sat in traffic, i went to pull off and stalled. all of a sudden my normally stiff as anything clutch pedal was completely soft, i then had a problem climbing a hill, I would be geting some power to the wheels, but above a certain amount of revs it was like the gearbox was not responding and it sounded and felt like i was revving in neutral, having to drop a gear and crawl up hills! I also noticed that the engine was running unusually warm, not hot, just warmer than normal.

Is this a sign that my clutch, or god forbid the gearbox, has had it? if so what sort of costs should i be looking at getting it fixed?

Cheers, hope you can help.
Hound

[mouce]

Had a similar thing happen in my VN, turned out that the front oil seal on the gearbox was dead. Which was causing gear oil to spew all over the clutch.

Ended up costing about $600 to get it done (FUC&ING $4 seal!). In hind sight, I should have used that time to do the rear main seal too.

This could be your problem, it could be something else though. There's a lot of stuff down there that can go wrong.

Best of luck with it mate.

[hound]

Cheers mouce, something to think about.

so has your rear main seal gone too? If it is the same problem would you recommend I see about getting both done at the same time?

[Blown V6 Hatch]

Sounds like your clutch has seen its day. Either way the gearbox needs to come out to have a look at the clutch. The belt slip kind of noise is more than likely a worn throwout bearing.

[NOGEN 3]

Or a collapsed clutch diaphragm???If theres no spring pressure on the plate theres no clamping. If its oil, like mouce said, you'll def smell it burning too....

[Blown V6 Hatch]

It could well be that the diaphragm has collapsed, its either that or the plate itself has just worn out. I know one thing for sure if either one has let go it wont be driving for much longer. I would suggest to drop the box out for a look, but i dare say the clutch will be getting replaced. I agree with you no gen 3 that if it was oil soaked clutch there would be a definate burning smell.

[hound]

Yeah, there's no smell of any fluid burning so perhaps not a leaky seal, looks like I'm opening the wallet for a new clutch, reckon $600 would be an ok price to get it sorted? don't really want to pay any more.

later

[Blown V6 Hatch]

$600 should be plenty to get a clutch replaced on a vp.

[geta]

you may need to just adjust ye olde clutch cable

-dave