The clutch started acting up on me. Working fine then not, grinding, stiff shifting, the whole bit. Then the clutch stopped working all together. It turned out that once the pilot bearing had completely shattered it had essentially welded the crank to the input shaft rendering the clutch itself useless.
I pulled the engine and trans as a unit and had to use pry bars to separate them on the ground. The bad pilot bearing bound things up that bad! The rest of the clutch parts were just fine but since I had it apart I did a full clutch job anyway.
VW did give a spec for the amount of grease used to lube the pilot bearing. It’s one gram of grease.
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