Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:35:51 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: '82 clutch capers
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The clutch master cylinder shares the fluid reservoir with the brake
master cylinder.
Under your instrument cluster cover. The cover has two finger slots in
the windshield side, just grip these two locations and give the cover a
little snap and it will roll over towards you.
The clutch supply is the tube coming out the side of the master cylinder
reservoir, probably has a rubber braided line on it.
If you fluid gets below the level of the tube it causes bubbles and no
fluid to your clutch master cylinder mounted just behind the steering
column above your feet.
The system also has a clutch slave that is mounted high up over your
transmission on the driver side.
It is difficult to reach; after you replenish your fluid this will
require bleeding. It requires a 7mm box end wrench to loosen the bleeder
screw.
When you press the clutch pedal, use short strokes when bleeding the
slave cylinder. If you fully bottom out the cylinder with foot pressure
you can put the rubber seals in a previously unused area and cut or
scrape your seals, causing a leak. As an option it can just be gravity
bleed by putting a can under the tranny at the right spot to catch the
fluid from the bleeder screw and keep your Master cylinder full it will
gravity bleed itself since the reservoir is higher than the slave
cylinder.
Stan Wilder
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:08:42 -0800 Art McGinn <amcginn@MICROWEB.COM>
writes:
> in newly purchased '82 westy, two things are going on with the
> clutch:
> a) shifting is stiff, as if some grease or oil is needed on
> some
> knuckles and elbows down there.
> b) just today, i had the clutch to the floor and was in
> reverse,
> waiting for some traffic to move, when the clutch seemed to fade and
> i was
> briefly locked into reverse. i muscled it out of reverse, pumped the
> clutch
> a couple of times, and got it back into gear and took off. it
> shifted ok
> after that. it felt like there may be low fluid -- i assume there is
> fluid
> in there somewhere -- or maybe some air in a line. this van has sat
> for
> months at a time for many years. is there a place to add fluid? any
> other
> thoughts? many thanks. art mcginn '82 westy, '82 van
>
>
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