Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:34:48 -0600
Reply-To: mike boland <westy@MVBOLAND.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: mike boland <westy@MVBOLAND.COM>
Subject: Re: '82 clutch capers
In-Reply-To: <20030301.203552.492.12.wilden1@juno.com>
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Or you can use a vacuum bleeder (I bought one from Mac tools 250.00 works
off shop air compressor) real nice.. quick easy..
Mike
At 08:35 PM 3/1/2003 -0600, Stan Wilder wrote:
>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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