Very very difficult when it hits you the first time.

Buy a 1/2 inch distributor wrench at Sears, a nice long one, and then
carefully bend it in 2 or 3 places and sand off the bottom so it is real
flat there.

I arrived at this solution, and then noticed later a post from Jim Davis
syncrohead who did the same thing.

Needle nose Vice grips coming up from below.

At 12:38 PM 7/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I just finished replacing my slave cylinder last night.  That one nut and
>bolt was a two person job.  I don't quite understand it though; everything
>on the van had been easier then it looks to fix except for this one nut and
>bolt on the slave cylinder.  I had to insert the bold with needle nose
>pliers (should have had vice grip needle nose to make it easier) and another
>person put the nut on it.  In any case it is done and now the find a way to
>clean the mess the leaky cylinder left on everything.
>
>Jere
>90 GL
>88 GL
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]  On Behalf Of
>Chuck Hill
>Sent:   Sunday, July 08, 2001 5:06 AM
>To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject:        Clutch slave cyl. removal & more
>
>The clutch slave cylinder is mounted on a bracket with two small bolts,
>and is typically really difficult for me to remove.  Access to the rear
>bolt is especially bad, and they are usually pretty rusty here in Iowa,
>at least.  Does anyone have any really effective tricks to getting this
>thing off?
>
>On another note, I like it when people advertise their parts for sale on
>the list, especially when they price them up front--same price for
>everyone--and actually have the parts they advertise for sale.  I think
>this is an important function the list can fulfill.
>
>One more thing.  We see the same issues raised repeatedly, and that's
>OK, and there are good reasons for this to happen.  Is it possible to
>create a Vanagon "book" that we could all contribute a page or chapter
>to, that could then build up to be the definitive information source,
>organized in some logical way, with updates possible.  The so-called
>archives system is clumsy, slow, irritating, and inefficient.  If there
>were a "book" that held our collective contributions, wouldn't that be a
>better system?
>
>I hope to change the world here.
>
>Chuck Hill, lotsabusses

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