Dear Dedicated Vanagoners, My clutch, or brake, master cylinder is leaking and has been for longer than I knew it. There was a big mess under the carpet. I peeled back the carpet, cut the pad/insulation to remove from driver's side and found paint peeling off of the thin sheet of bituminous (tar) sheet. That sheet was broken in a few places and I could see that underneath there was even more fluid. So, I removed the entire sheet from the floor panel and found white paint which is sticky and soft from the fluid. Questions are: Is there anyway to make that paint hard again? Or, do I need to remove it all, down to metal, and then repaint? I thought that I'd clean it with some citrus degreaser, let it dry and hope. The pad/insulation is undoubtably saturated with fluid. Can I just wrap it with plastic and put it back? Are there sources for the thin tarlike sheet and/or the pad/insulation? Obviously, I will have the leak fixed before I repaint or whatever. The brake cylinder was replaced just before I bought the bus, in late August. The fluid level was above MAX then, and now it is just above the seam in the reservoir, which is just above MIN. I suppose that it is the clutch cylinder. Thanks and regards, -- David Bogle '72 Campmobile 2.0L (F.S. $1200) '87 Vanagon GL Syncro Westfalia |
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