gotta love the dandelion tool!� i use mine for easing out the push caps/pins used to hold the interior panels on.

happy holidays all, and may your van have a healthy 2010(with hope mine will...just passed inspection, and the emissions numbers were even better than four years ago!� go figure)

don p
84 westy
carolina, ri

--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Tool trick..(not Xmas related)
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 12:29 AM

Changing your brake Master Cylinder.� One of the 'gotchas' in that job is
how to get the sometimes stuck brake fluid reservoir out of the rubber
grommets in the brake cylinder without breaking or cracking the barbs.���I
did mine today and indeed, the res. was stuck in there pretty well.� Tried
all manner of pry techniques and BFFI, too.� (BFFI= Brute Force and
_______ing� Ignorance)� Then I recalled my handy dandy dandelion garden tool
that I usually use for removing the axle nut caps and some times the regular
hubcaps.� That dorky Wal Mart tool is perfect to slip under the flanges on
the fluid res. between the white plastic and the rubber grommets, and pry it
up without flexing the 'spigots' and maybe cracking them.

� Got the job done in about 2.5hrs including bleeding with my Motive power
bleeder...another good tool.

� Don Hanson