"I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker" (qaaaaa)
10/14/2019 at 11:48 • Filed to: None
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"I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker" (qaaaaa)
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I put it off for a while because I hadn’t been having problems. Figured I should before it got cold. Hey, I’m being proactive! It wasn’t actually as hard as anticipated, and clutch feel is now much, much better.
I also think I have the flu. So that's cool.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
10/14/2019 at 14:43 |
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I had a clutch cable go bad on my Rabbit pickup and replaced it as soon as I felt the problem. Around the same time a friend had the same problem on his nearly new Mk II GTI and he ignored it. I don’t know how he even drove the car as there was less than an inch of clutch travel. In the end he had to replace the clutch, pressure plate and the entire pedal assembly (he applied so much force to operate the clutch that he bent it), well into four figures of repairs, out-of-pocket, because he didn’t bother to replace the damn cable when it started acting up, something that could have saved him a fortune - idiot.
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I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/14/2019 at 14:48 |
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Yeah, my Golf had the problematic self-adjusting clutch cable. I think the Mk3 was the first car they put those in. What was happening was every once in a while the adjuster mechanism would “slip” all the way out on mine and I would have to pop it off the arm from time to time and reset it. Very annoying. I now have a manually adjustable cable, like a Mk1 or Mk2 would have from the factory. It feels a lot better, and will hopefully be much less problematic.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
10/14/2019 at 15:02 |
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As I recall from my Mk I/II days, the manually adjustable cable would hang up on the firewall if there was too much play. Once you noticed that, if you were bothering to pay attention, you took it in and got it replaced, a quick and simple job, and relatively cheap . But if you ignored this simple thing it got really expensive, really fast, as my buddy found out.
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I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/14/2019 at 16:43 |
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Ignoring problems tends to do that, ha