The clutch hydraulics do not just get air bound. There has to be a leak
somewhere. The system is designed so that in the event of low fluid the
clutch will be affected before the brakes. Anyway you have to look for a
leak somewhere.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Mark
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 10:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Not able to engage any gear

I had a problem recently where my clutch got lighter and lighter and it
eventually stopped engaging. I couldn't go anywhere, so had to park in a
nearby neighborhood (luckily close to home). Turned out to be air in the
clutch line - bled it - and I was good to go.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Kevin Plichta
<plichtakevin@hotmail.com>wrote:

> Looking for some wisdom.
> My 91 stock manual, I can not get it to engage in any gear while to
> motor is running. If I start it with the clutch to the floor and in
> 1st it acts like its  engage (wants to jump forward).
> I have check the master and slave clutch cylinders and they are not
> leaking and seem to move when the clutch is pushed down. Seems that
> with the motor running makes it not want to go into any gears and the
> motor off goes easily into all the gears? What is different when running
or not?
> Thanks for your help.
> Kevin Plichta
>

Mark - 1990 Westy - 2.1 manual