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Date:         Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:18:46 -0400
Reply-To:     Tom Carrington <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Carrington <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Re: Clutch slave cyl. removal & more
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Hi Chuck,

I hate those bolts as well. On my Canadian-salt bred Crew Cab, the bolts were so corroded that I could not get any sort of wrench or pliers on the stubs that were left. My sawzall and a 12" long metal cutting blade got in there via the rear wheel well.

The new bolts were stainless steel!

Hang in there on the archives...they will get better soon. The simple truth is that our server is overwhelmed right now. We are in the midst of raising funds to purchase a new server. Once the new server is online, archive searches will work much better. Here is the info on our donation efforts:

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0105d&L=vanagon&O=A&P=21353

TomC tcarrington@relitech.com

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hill [mailto:hilltech@NETINS.NET] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 8:06 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Clutch slave cyl. removal & more

The clutch slave cylinder is mounted on a bracket with two small bolts, and is typically really difficult for me to remove. Access to the rear bolt is especially bad, and they are usually pretty rusty here in Iowa, at least. Does anyone have any really effective tricks to getting this thing off?

On another note, I like it when people advertise their parts for sale on the list, especially when they price them up front--same price for everyone--and actually have the parts they advertise for sale. I think this is an important function the list can fulfill.

One more thing. We see the same issues raised repeatedly, and that's OK, and there are good reasons for this to happen. Is it possible to create a Vanagon "book" that we could all contribute a page or chapter to, that could then build up to be the definitive information source, organized in some logical way, with updates possible. The so-called archives system is clumsy, slow, irritating, and inefficient. If there were a "book" that held our collective contributions, wouldn't that be a better system?

I hope to change the world here.

Chuck Hill, lotsabusses


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