I'm just forwarding this e-mail to the group because is saved my butt today
- thanks Tom!

I was replacing a leaking slave cylinder with a used one from my old
transmission.

When installing I couldn't get the piston to move - it was stuck. Pulling
the boot and arm off - placing a 12mm socket on the cylinder and squeezing
it with clamp worked! I used a vice. Yay!

Now hopefully it will bleed and not leak!!

Mark
1990 Westy, manual

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Clutch Slave Cylinder
To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com

How did the slave fail? Is it leaking or just kind of
frozen?

The reason I ask is that when I had the trans out in
August upon reinstallation  the slave  would not work
-it seemed frozen, but no leaks visible.

Somehow, while detached from the clutch arm, the
piston had slid past its normal travel point. It could
be that someone stepped on the clutch while the slave
was detached from the arm.

I removed the slave without opening the lines, pulled
off the plunger/boot, and with a 12mm socket and a
c-clamp pushed the piston back up into the cylinder.
Reassembled, and everything worked fine.

HTH
(with  a tip of the hat to Dennis Haynes!)

--- vanagonvw <ac.vanagon@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Mike S wrote:
> > At 02:15 PM 9/30/2007, Roger Sisler wrote...
> >> Get the master and slave at the same time. About
> $110. Dont change the
> >> rubber hose that runs from the master cyl
> resivour. Brake fluid will
> >> eat
> >> away at most rubber replacements.
> >
> > CIP1 carries the correct (blue) brake fluid hose:
> >
>
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VHD%2DN20%2D3501
> >
> > Sold by the meter. You need about 700mm.
> >
> As I mentioned, the master and the slave were
> replaced at the same time
> not long ago. No need to replace the master, or any
> of the hoses. It was
> just a crappy slave cylinder.
>
> Has anyone replaced their slave cylinder in recent
> memory? Just
> wondering where you bought it, and if its still
> working okay :-) I don't
> like buying the same part, from the same vendor,
> when the first one
> failed so dramatically, and so quickly. The original
> one lasted 150K
> miles. Be nice if the replacement part had gone even
> half of that....
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>

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