Date:         Wed, 22 Apr 1998 01:22:40 -0600
Reply-To:     Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Question about Clutch Slave
Comments: To: Sean Bartnik <sbart7kb@WWW.MWC.EDU>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
In-Reply-To:  <Vanagon%1998042117280860@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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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?

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Gary Shea                                       shea@xmission.com
Salt Lake City                      http://www.xmission.com/~shea