Can someone help this guy out? I yanked this off of the wetwesties list.
-M

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 pgilland@yahoo.com wrote:

> I drove my 84 Westie from Vashon Island to South Dakota for the
> holidays, and after one particularly cold night out on the street in
> Rapid City I was unable to shift into or between gears with the motor
> running.
>
> I figured the clutch slave and/or master cylinder went bad.  I rebuilt
> them both, and in doing so found the master was in especially
> dire need of service.
>
> I've bleed a full liter of brake fluid through the system after re-
> assembly, and still no go.  I can't get the thing to shift between
> gears, and if I want to go anywhere I have to start it in first then
> later *glide* it into third etc.  If I start it in first with the
> clutch pedal to the floor it will just barely tug on the van -
> releasing the pedal fully transmits power to the gear box.
>
> The gear box is fine - I actually took a 600 mile jaunt down I-29
> this way, and there has been absolutely no evidence of clutch slipping
> whatsoever.
>
> Am I just an idiot who can't bleed his clutch or could there be
> something else going on here.  I swear, I saw no bubbles and just
> clean brake fluid flowing through my "one man brake bleeder".  Should
> I go
> back and dump another liter through it?  I followed guidance from the
> Haynes & Bentley manuals in rebuilding the cylinders, and the only
> snag I could think of is I saw a small pit in the master cylinder wall
> (I realized then I should have just bought a new one rather than
> rebuild the old, but it was too late if you know what I mean).
>
> Arrgh!
>