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Hey guys, I have an 03 beetle turbo S, and I just had a few questions for everybody about your manual tranny cars. I was talking to another vw owner with the 6 speed tranny (I would imagine it is the same for the 5 speed) and he told me that "the clutch only starts to engage when your pedal is already half way up, but you will still grind if you shift unless you put the clutch all the way to the floor."
He didn't understand why this was, and I didn't either from what he told me, but when you shift very quickly in the car there is some truth to his statement. However I noticed when I am shifting slowly there is no problem whatsoever with getting it to smoothly shift gears with the pedal just over halfway depressed.
This got me thinking that perhaps the master cylinder, or slave just weren't able to flow the clutch fluid fast enough to keep up which is why you have to put the pedal all the way to the floor to kind of "force" the clutch fluid to hurry up. Now, this is just an idea that I got from my LS1 f-body experience where the master cylinder is a restriction and if you modify, or replace the master cylinder with an aftermarket one you are able to shift faster and easier with less risk of grinding gears. I was just wondering if anyone has looked into this before, and what they might have found out? Or does anyone know if any aftermarket companies have looked into it for our cars?
He didn't understand why this was, and I didn't either from what he told me, but when you shift very quickly in the car there is some truth to his statement. However I noticed when I am shifting slowly there is no problem whatsoever with getting it to smoothly shift gears with the pedal just over halfway depressed.
This got me thinking that perhaps the master cylinder, or slave just weren't able to flow the clutch fluid fast enough to keep up which is why you have to put the pedal all the way to the floor to kind of "force" the clutch fluid to hurry up. Now, this is just an idea that I got from my LS1 f-body experience where the master cylinder is a restriction and if you modify, or replace the master cylinder with an aftermarket one you are able to shift faster and easier with less risk of grinding gears. I was just wondering if anyone has looked into this before, and what they might have found out? Or does anyone know if any aftermarket companies have looked into it for our cars?