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clutches on ebay for £20, whomever be doing that! (im just bitter cuz i shelled out almost £200 down the garage..)

kudos for doing it yourself - did you do it ALL yourself or with help?

you know you gotta write a first hand experience guide / FAQ now

oh and you should have seen the state of mine when the garage geezer showed me the old one (i was scraping the barrel, just a *little*, praying it wasn't going to give out on each trip )... totally wrecked.

pedal's still a 10 ton weight even with that sorted, though!

smc343 - sells off old stock Unipart components reasonably cheaply. Often has odd VW bits like clutches, alternators etc. Obviously there isn't much of a demand for them because I was the only bidder and I got it for the starting price of £19.99 + p&p.

Did the majority of the change myself, had to get my dad to give me a hand manouvering the box into place once I'd replaced the clutch, as it's a heavy bugger to lift and manouver into place by yourself. Got a damn good workout trying to do so though. If only my trolley jack hadn't buckled Stupid cheap tools.

If the pedal's still really heavy, are you sure you've not just got it adjusted too tight? That's the thing that makes it heavy, having to push the pressure plate springs in further than you really need to. I think that's also the reason that my release bearing and spring fingers were worn so badly, the fact that I'd adjusted it much further in than I should have done.

I'd write an FAQ, but I followed amstrange's FAQ on porka so I don't think there's much of a market for a copy Only things I'd add to his FAQ are that removing the ARB may be necessary depending on how good you are at angling the box, and it's useful to have a helper to remove and refit the box as you do need to manouver it a bit to get the driveshaft flange past the flywheel.