As Tom said, no break in period.  It sounds like you either have a failing
transmission or it could be that the pilot bearing is failing.  You have to
remove the transmission to check this so you might want to be prepared to do
a rebuild if you find that the pilot bearing is not the culprit.

Hope this helps,
Ken Wilford
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Maggie Dew
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:39 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: new slave cylinder

I got a new clutch slave cylinder yesterday - after having the master
cylinder replaced last summer.  It's still stiff going into first, and
sometimes second.  Is this normal - does it take awhile to "break in"?

Maggie
'85 Subaru-Westy "Anne Bonney"