At 10:07 PM 11/16/95 -0600, Mark McCulley wrote: >My clutch pedal (on '87 syncro) is squeaking terribly, but it's very hard >to get to--I haven't even been able to position myself to get a complete >view of all the moving parts. Has anyone worked on the clutch pedal or >master cylinder before? Is there some trick to getting access to this >assembly? > > Probably the first thing you will want to do is remove the instrument cluster/pod -complete. This will open a whole new vista, you will see many new and exciting things <g>. Many times a simple squirt of a "good" liquid lube will do the trick. The more satisfying and lasting method would be to disassemble the pedal shaft, clean everything up and relube the whole sheebang with a good light weight corrosion resistant wide temp range grease. We use a DOW Corning low temp grease with very good results. While you're there it is a good time to visually inspect the master cylinders, the cluster connections and anything else that catchs your eye... Dan "In our every deliberation, we must condsider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations."
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