The most obvious one is to have someone press the clutch pedal while you
observe the actions of the slave cylinder. The cylinder is right in front of
the drivers side rear wheel. If it barely moves, it or the master has
failed. I would suspect that you would get more gear grinding than
shuddering with a failed slave but that's just my experience on an 83
Aircooled. Shuddering is normally associated with a contaminated clutch
disk.

tim in san jose

>From: Michael Rule <manikmike@YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: Michael Rule <manikmike@YAHOO.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: speaking if clutch slave failure
>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:38:22 -0700
>
>Hi All,
>
>What are the signs when driving/shifting of a clutch slave failure?  Or
>perhaps I should ask what it's function is... never had a hydraulic
>clutch system before.  Found lots of fixes in archives but not so much
>a descript of the failure symptom (save leaks!).
>
>I ask as I have a "shuddering" if I am not �ber-gentle releasing the
>clutch after shifting into first... thought it might be the broken
>tranny mount, but that fix has not cured the shudder.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>
>
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