Leo,

Make sure you bleed your system well, and even try "bench bleeding" the
Master Cly before throwing it out.

Use a good DOT 4 fluid, and be sure you don't have any system leaks... check
all your lines.

How many miles to you have on your clutch, what % of driving is city, what
year is your Vanagon?

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Leo Lipert
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: clutch woes

Hello All,

A couple of months ago my clutch pedal started engaging very low, and more
recently it goes to the floor on occasion. If I push slowly I can pretty
much get it to go all the way down. I replaced the clutch master cylinder a
little over three years and 22k miles ago, so I figured that the slave
cylinder must be failing (conventional wisdom says to change them both at
the same time, right?). I changed the slave cylinder last weekend and I
still have the same problem.

The more I think about it, it seems as if the clutch master cylinder is
failing on me.

My question is this. Have any of you experienced premature failure with a
recently replaced clutch master cylinder? I'm just wondering if the quality
of the replacements we are getting lately are as good as the original. It
seems way too early for a failure like this.

BTW, the master cylinder was purchased from one of our fantastic online
retailers, and I am in no way throwing stones at them. Without these guys,
we'd be pretty much screwed as far as maintaining our beloved vanagons, and
I am grateful for them.

Any input anyone?

Thanks, Leo

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