If the pressure plate or throw-out arm requires excessive force to
operate, than the cylinder may be getting over loaded. Does the clutch
work easily or do you need to bear down on the pedal? I've seen many
pressure plates get "hard" before they fail.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Doug Alcock
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Repeated Slave Cylinder Failure

Hi gang,

     I just had my clutch slave cylinder replace for the 3rd time since
July of
2000 ---- so I got about 9 months out of each one. While they were all
under
warranty it seems to me that something else is wrong here. Surely they
should
last longer than that. Any ideas what the problem could be???

Cheers,

Doug Alcock
'84 Westy "BlueBelle"
Toronto, Canada
http://www.torontovanagon.com