Date:         Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:05:37 +0000
Reply-To:     Dave Vickery <davevickery@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dave Vickery <davevickery@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: No Clutch-Thankks
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Thanks for all the replies on the clutch suddenly going to the floor.

The first thing I check was the brake fluid reservoir and there was fluid in
there, so I was confused.  It is way low down below the min line, but I
assumed that it should still work.  Someone said the "upper connection" goes
to the clutch and the lower to the brakes, so maybe that is the explanation.
  I didn't check the brake pedal.  After pumping the clutch last night, I
noticed a new small spot in the center of the big spot under the clutch
lever area at the transmission, so that confirms it is leaking from
somewhere around there or above.

I know where to bleed the clutch at the rear of the van looking down on the
engine compartment.  That is the brake and clutch master cylinder right?   I
also see a plastic hose brake line going to a galvanized steel housing down
at the bottom of the steering column.  Is that the slave?

Sorry, never had to work on this before on a vanagon, so I'm not sure.

Thanks
Dave


>From: "Vanderzanden Michael (BetP/ESE1)"
><michael.vanderzanden@BOSCHREXROTH-US.COM>
>Reply-To: "Vanderzanden Michael (BetP/ESE1)"
><michael.vanderzanden@BOSCHREXROTH-US.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: No Clutch
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:42:04 -0600
>
>Watch the clutch release lever where it enters the bell housing while
>someone actuates the clutch pedal to verify that in fact it is not
>operating normally (i.e. see if the clutch release lever is being pushed
>far enough by the slave cylinder).  If it is not, and you have fluid
>leaking from the slave cylinder, the slave cylinder is your problem.  If
>you are not leaking any fluid at the slave cylinder and you are not
>leaking fluid externally anywhere else in the hydraulic system (i.e your
>ckutch fluid level is not dropping), then your problem is the clutch
>master cylinder.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Mike V.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>Of Dave Vickery
>Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:58 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: No Clutch
>
>My clutch pedal is going to the floor suddenly when I went to start it
>today.  No clutch just springyness.  I drove it a week ago and before
>that
>it has been fine.  New engine, new transmission.  It may be leaking from
>the
>clutch lever area and there is possiible a stain on the ground below the
>clutch lever area but hard to say in the winter.
>
>What should I look at first?
>
>Thanks
>Dave
>
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