Ugh. I lost a slave cylinder approaching the Holland Tunnel on my way out of
town back to Alabama once. Not fun, but as s student driving a TR4 for six
months in atlanta traffic without a clutch had trained me for the
experience.

Jim

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:24 AM, B Feddish <uprightbassghost@hotmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for everyone's links about my problem shifting into 1st and 2nd.  I
> noticed that the boots were missing around the shifter ball (
> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_1348_332/shift_lever.html )  and
> ordered that and the boots before I headed up to North Jersey to have the
> clutch put in. I basically had no 1st gear on the way up so if I was glad
> we
> were replacing the clutch too! Nothing like driving through NY suburban
> rush
> hour  with no 1st gear.   It turned out the linkage was a mess around that
> ball so after he installed it the linkage was nice and tight again.
>
> I did not mess around and I installed this clutch
> http://www.busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=028141999HD and a new
> resurfaced flywheel.
>
> Feels like a new van...
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>