Sean, At risk of referring to the wrong generation of vanagon, I can address the bleeding. I suspect that yours is not a waterboxer since you have a Haynes. Mine is an '85 GL. I had no particular difficulty with the replacement. The Bentley says a power bleeder is necessary. Not having one, I just pumped the pedal a lot at the beginning to get things started ... perhaps twenty press/open bleed/close bleed/release cycles. A two person operation for sure. After these initial cycles to get the first fluid flowing, the thing bled as expected. Mike
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