Not sure how that would happen.  If the fluid gets past the slave
cylinder seal, it is basically now external to the cylinder.  But I know
better than to RULE anything out...

Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:00 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: No Clutch

I've replaced several slave cylinders that were not leaking, and were
bad, so don't overlook the slave cylinder even if you don't have a
leak there.

Jim

> If it is not, and you have fluid
> leaking from the slave cylinder, the slave cylinder is your
> problem.  If
> you are not leaking any fluid at the slave cylinder and you are not
> leaking fluid externally anywhere else in the hydraulic system (i.e
> your
> ckutch fluid level is not dropping), then your problem is the clutch
> master cylinder.
>