Your clutch is hydraulic. Check the clutch master and the clutch slave cylinders and lines for leaks. If there aren't any leaks the slave or master could be *bleeding by* the cups internally. I have recently been clued in on DOT 4 brake fluid, it makes your rubber parts last longer and my whole brake and my clutch system works better now, you may want to change to DOT 4 brake fluid if you have reason to replace either the master or slave cylinder. You could see marked improvement by just bleeding your brake and clutch system and installing the DOT 4 fluid. The first time I changed my brake fluid I got almost pure black fluid out of every bleeder and had to use two quarts of fluid to get it to bleed clean. Stan Wilder 83 Westfalia Air Cooled On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:52:48 -0700 Patrick & Stephanie Harris <harrisvanagon@HOTMAIL.COM> writes: > Greetings! > > Just curious! "Bessie", my 81 Vanagon, has a small clutch problem. > The > clutch is new however, but I didn't do the replacement. I was > driving it > home and the clutch has gone so far to the floor to disengage, it's > almost a > joke. It still works and everything, however its like the cable has > slipped > or the fluid is low on the slave cylinder. It works like an on/off > switch > anymore. So, it poses my question. Is the clutch in my 81 a > hydrolic or > cable clutch. If either, what would be the easy solution to my > little > problem? > > Thank you! > > Patrick Harris > Longview, Washington > 81 Vanagon ("Bessie") > 87 Vanagon GL > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. |
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