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Subject:Re: Brake Fluid Loss
From:Jere Hawn
Date:Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:24:09 -0700

Bill,

Brake master cylinder is under the instrument cluster cover under the
reservoir

The clutch master cylinder is at the bottom of the steering column (back
side) about where your big toe is when the clutch is pushed in

Clutch slave is back/upper driver side of the tranny/engine

Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Bill H.
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Brake Fluid Loss

Well, now I'm getting confused. I understood the location of the Brake
Master
Cylinder but two suggestions are to look at the Clutch Master Cylinder or
the
Clutch Slave Cylinder. Are there 3 cylinders and are they all linked to each
other so as to cause the loss of all brake fluid with the failure of any one
of them? Vanagon seems just screwy enough to do that. If that's the case,
I'll begin by tracking them down come morning. Thanks.

Bill H.
88 Silver GL
Pittsburgh

--- "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> I seem to have lost all my brake fluid again but the last time (Jan) it
was
> the master cylinder and I found fluid all over the rug. But this time, I'm
> having trouble finding good evidence of what has failed. There is a little
> fluid on the lower steering column but not enough to account for the whole
> reservoir and the area around the master cylinder isn't noticeably wet.
> Nothing else I've looked at seems to be leaking, so what am I missing?
> What's
> the most likely suspect? Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill H.
> 88 Silver GL
> Pittsburgh

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