VW Caddy/Seat Inca clutch and gearbox?

VW Caddy/Seat Inca clutch and gearbox?

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Yatesy350i

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975 posts

135 months

Monday 16th November 2015
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Hi All

Anyone know anything about the above?

I've got a 52 plate Inca that I use for dragging my fishing and bike stuff around. Only does a couple of miles a week. I went out in it Friday evening and the clutch pedal hit the floor. I pulled it back up by hand and then the pedal locked solid. Got it towed back home and had a look at it.

I removed the slave cylinder at the box end and that freed the pedal. So I'm assuming the cylinder is toast for starters. I removed the box inspection panel behind the front near side wheel and found that the release bearing lever had a crack in it, so I've welded that up ready to go black in.

My question is should I be able to push on the release bearing to check it's working? As it seems to be fully in all the way. Never actually changed a FWD clutch before so any advice would be appreciated. I was planning on replacing the cylinder and bleeding it to try before breaking the box from the engine.

Thanks KY

S0 What

3,358 posts

171 months

Monday 16th November 2015
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behind that bearing is a rod that run inside the input shaft to the clutch, that rod can punch through the clutch cover or snap off making it shorter, i'd reassemble and test it but the chances are you'll need a new clutch, release rod and bearing frown

Yatesy350i

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975 posts

135 months

Tuesday 17th November 2015
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Thanks mate. I think you may be right.

Do you know the oil spec for 1.9SDi please?

Cheers Karl.