Date:         Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:04:17 -0400
Reply-To:     Geosh Fathauer <geosh@ANTIOCH-COLLEGE.EDU>
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From:         Geosh Fathauer <geosh@ANTIOCH-COLLEGE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question about Clutch Slave
Comments: To: shea@GTSDESIGN.COM
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In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980422011331.334F-100000@gmong.gtsdesign.com> from
              "Gary Shea" at Apr 22, 98 01:22:40 am
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Greetings-

I have found that it is indeed easy on the wasserboxers- you can get
at the bolts from above. On the air-cooled engines, however, it is
a different story- as mentioned below, there is not an
easy way to get to the bolts from below.

Geosh
>
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sean Bartnik wrote:
> > > PS still trying to figure out why the removal of clutch slave is supposed to
> > > be so difficult.  Did it all by myself in ten minutes today.
> > As was said earlier on the list, removal of the clutch slave cylinder is
> > indeed really easy.  Installation, however, is a bit more tricky because
> > you are working against the clutch to put it back in (unless of course
> > the engine is out).
>
> Really easy, huh?  I have an '81 Vanagon, just like yours Sean, and
> I always drop the engine and tranny as a unit.  I find that disconnecting
> the slave cylinder from the tranny is the major source of pain... there's
> no easy way to get a wrench on those bolts from underneath!  I finally
> replaced them with allen-heads but even that isn't much help.  I have
> typically spent more than an hour trying to loose those damnable bolts!
>
> When you say it's easy, are you talking about dropping the engine and
> tranny separately?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Gary Shea                                       shea@xmission.com
> Salt Lake City                      http://www.xmission.com/~shea
>