In <20050313045858.74018.qmail@web41307.mail.yahoo.com>, on 03/12/05
   at 08:58 PM, Westy Clarke <westy_famiglia@YAHOO.COM> said:

>My clutch pedal has about 2 inches of play until it
>meets resistance with the master cylinder.
>buy?  Currently The gears grind if I don't wait a few
>seconds between shifts, especially when going from 1st
>to 2nd, a bit 2nd to 3rd and also into reverse.
>Any assistance would be appreciated.

Those symptoms on mine led me to the clutch slave cylinder, and after I
changed it out, all was well.

A quick look at the slave and it was obvious that it was leaking and ready
to fail, even tho there was no sign of it on the garage floor. As far as
changing them out, its not hard, but it taxes the mind to figure out how
to get at them :-) The master cylinder is reputed to be fairly easy to
remove. Mine went out before I knew much about vanagons, so I had my
mechanic do it. The slave was really quite easy.

HTH,

John