hey Don ..
sounds like you're back in biz for now.
If you got actual black, thin looking old brake fluid ..
I'd say it was a few years overdue even.

re
we'll see if that
lasts...hope so, that clutch slave rear bolt kinda sucks to remove."

I am behind right now on replies to special parts I make and sell...
too swamped fixin' vans.....
and ........
I sell a modified cluch slave bracket where that aft nut and bolt afair is a
stud ..
so it's real easy to unbolt the slave cylinder.

scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Pedal action migrating towards the floor (clutch)

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
> scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd just bleed it with a manual bleeding method ..
>> if it bleeds properly ...see how it is then.
>>
>> if it won't bleed ...like pumps in air .........then clutch MC ..but if
>> that's semi new I wouldn't suspect it.
>> I have seen vans on what might have been their 5th clutch slave cylinder
>> but they still had the  ( rusty awful looking ) original clutch MC.
>>
>> I only see to states of how the lever fits on the cross shaft..
>> either the come off OK ..
>> or they are terminally rusted in place.
>>
>> check for flexing clutch slave bracket...
>> just for the fun of it.
>> and make sure the forward support bracket for it is in place..
>> people leave those off sometimes..
>> and the slave bracket can flex and eventually crack or break.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
>  This afternoon I had to go into the "Outback" near Goldendale,
> Wa....3500' elevation and recent snow.   Up a slimy dirt track with snow
> and hills....My clutch action was getting worse and worse, grinding on
> gear
> changes if I didn't rev-match and finally, not possible to get a gear when
> stopped with the clutch in.  Had to turn off, get gear, then turn on and
> go.....Since I was unfamiliar with this track to a job I was looking
> at.....and it was way out there....I found a spot and turned around...went
> home and bled the clutch.....
>    am usually able to nurse a 2wd vehicle up most roads in the snow...but
> a Vanagon with an inoperative clutch on a backcountry road with hills,
> snow
> and muck?  No, didn't want to try it.  Too remote and too cold to walk in
> if I went off...
>   Put the Powerbleeder on the brake res and let the clutch slave
> bleed....Black dirty brakefluid, but I couldn't see any air bubbles....the
> way the clutch cylinder sits....I think all the air in the line sits right
> at the bleeder valve....and when you open it...air comes out first...then
> the fluid starts....hoping this is the case....I think I'd have seen some
> bubbles if my MC was faulty....I bled till I was getting fresh fluid from
> the Brake res up by the instrument cluster...
>  Anyhow, my clutch action is back to normal....we'll see if that
> lasts...hope so, that clutch slave rear bolt kinda sucks to remove.....all
> else around that area checked out good....even my now two year old Rescue
> Tape repair of the front head hose off my inline four motor....I bet I'll
> "pay" for saying that, soon enough....probably out on Hwy 395 at midnight
> in the High Sierras or downtown San Bernardino on the freeway...(grin)
>  Don Hanson