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| posted on September 30th, 2011 at 10:44 AM |
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Autostick Engine Bolt near Clutch Servo Arm
Hi Guys. I got the donk back in the beast last night after a lot of swearing, cursing, grunting, lifting, jacking..
For the life of me could not get a socket on the top bolt near the clutch actuator arm. My original trans has a "later" style arm which actually
goes up and over the bolt. My replacement "older" trans has the clutch arm right in front of the bolt.
I tried a 17mm tube spanner but couldn't get it over the bolt. It's most of the way there, but I need to get a bit of grunt on it and can't get
grip.
What have others done to solve this problem?
Cheers Peter.
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chillihilli
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| posted on October 3rd, 2011 at 11:08 AM |
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I thought I’d follow through on this post in case anybody else has a similar issue.
I managed to tighten up the nut in question by getting a 17mm tube spanner (quite thin) and grinding it down a little on the corners so it would fit
in. On the other end of the tube spanner I used a standard socket - which fit over the end – to turn the tube spanner. This enabled me to get a
reasonable amount of torque on it 
Cheers Peter.
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 posted on October 3rd, 2011 at 09:32 PM |
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Hi Peter
there are two ways of doing this..
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One is to use the D shaped headed VW Bolt which locks into the hole You were talking about.. [gearbox side]
and a nut goes on the other end [behind the fan shroud]
111 199 101 HALF MOON SHAPED BOLT..
the other way is to use an Allen headed bolt thru the same hole from the gearbox side and a nut behind the fan housing.
the allen key will turn until it locks on the gearbox or servo bracket.. so You can tighten the nut from behind the fan shroud.
I have done this [D shaped bolts] many times with the doghouse fan shroud and the 1500 fan shroud..
its a knuckle buster with the doghouse.. lol
I always use new nyloc nuts on most bolts so they can't undo
on manual cars the bolts go in from the back of the fan shroud and there is a piece there to lock the nut in place..
cheers
Lee
I have a pic of these somewhere ..
I had two different lengths..
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| posted on October 4th, 2011 at 01:38 AM |
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Thanks Lee but I think my 71 is different. There is a thread that the bolt goes into on the engine side, therefore a nut is not possible and the
reason I need to get a bit of grunt on it . They must have changed it when they updated the arm on the trans to go around the bolt head?
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