NikpV

Finally sourced a clutchplate for the air con (it was attached to a brand new compressor) all for less than the price of the clutch kit from fords. A little tricky to tighten up but thats done. Looks like the clutch coil which was working til the old plate fell off is now not working - cltuch doesnt engage but get 13.2v ( no load ) at the connector on the compressor when set to auto and 0v when set to econ. Any other ideas - looks like swapping the whole compressor/clutch for the new one is likely to be the way to go (got a free fill up from a mobile aircon guy due) how easy is swapping the compressor? anybody done it themselvs - looks like relaese aux tensioner, remove the 2 air con pipes and unplug clutch, then unbolts compressor any thoughts/comments?

actually I dont find the passenger seat difficult to turn at all, the drivers seat is a little more tricky but we still regularly swivel them when we have to picnic in the car in the winter or if caught in the rain... you do have to be careful getting the drivers seat turned back ... there is usually a pause in all conversation to see whether dad is going to get his chin clonked when he pulls the wrong handle to their general merriment :angry2:

Frauds

air con clutch?

i've heard that at vw the linkage is cheaper, coincidentally I did mine this afternoon - cant believe it was working at all but now I remember how fast normal speed is now .. took just under 2 hours from scatch

go to the top of the page and look for options click it and select download this... then select html version .. you will see the pictures then

swivel seats will have these handles .. unless they have changed the position/style since 2001 ps sorry I had to create a post from your pm to upload picture - you may need to make a couple more posts to see the picture though

Definitely the site .....

anybody have a clutch plate like this not being used(thanks Mikej for looking)

Thank-you folks :lol:

The clutch plate moves freely by hand, the splines are good and there is power going to the connector to the sie of the pulley. The Compressor pulley has no play. Not sure what else I can say. Thanks how do you know the splines are ok - did you take the clutch plate off? BTW if any of you reading this thread has a decent clutch plate of the splined variety (mk1 tdi had a keyed type) I would be very interested thank-you

anti-roll bar drop link ? item 2 on the faq

thank-you folks I have the kids this weekend so instead of have a drink to celebrate I am blowing out candles on chocolate cake and thanks to my Sig Other they were the relighting ones :D Gregers mate .. dont judge everyone by your own standard :D :16: :16:

having changed my blades yesterday my 2001 ghia has blades that slightly curve upwards so at full wipe position curved outwards

Welcome to the madhouse

thanks but I've already risked the

Well that was fun ... not .. removal and replacement of undertray is not easy in the dark and cold without lifting the car. Clutch plate recovered ... techically its fcuked no splines left on 90% of it :P so now do I buy a

umm clutch plate fell off - splines are still on the shaft and shaft turns smoothly. Hey gregers sounds like you describe - anybody tell me what the inner comprises is it just a spring and plate or other bits - I'm looks to pick up a working compressor + clutch

I know, I am turning into a right whingy miserable sod ( I think its catching ). ??????

havent seen one - perhaps you can post a step by step after saturday?

and make sure you check the drivers door as well you may have some sort of short or broken wire affecting the other doors you can get some weird unpredictable effects in this area check the faq - 31 43 and 44 iirc

time to check for broken wiring in the door to piller looms - my old escort had swiches for the lights but the door open alert worked on the microswitch in the lock tself - maybe the gal is the other way around and the wire in the looms is a known issue and can cause all sorts of problems - soldered four the other day on my passenger near side rear door

how long after posting did you try and edit? there is a time iirc to allow you to correct spellings but not allowing you to change your post in a heated discussion I dont know if this is your problem or not

apologies for any confusion here - I have moved the replies from the technical section and closed that thread so some of the reples here were on the other thread

looked at some of this before - somehow these are ex members who posted when full members and somehow trransmuted into guests - not sure how that happens but I did check up on some of these a long time ago