I changed the slave cyl on my '84 a few weeks back. Did it all from
the top, get the line loose (break the torque) first. I used a short
13mm wrench to hold the rear bolt when I took the nut off & two
wrenches on the fwd bolt (as I recall). Getting the rear bolt to stay
in the bracket as I put the new cyl on was a challenge, I used a
length of safety wire to hold it until I got the nut started, then
pulled the wire.
I had to (re) loosen both the bolts get the cyl lined up so the solid
fluid line would start.

Gravity bleeding was great for changing the fluid but we had to
pressure bleed (the old pump pump pump hold & squirt) it to get a
good pedal. All in all not too bad.

A long magnet was used to pick up the dropped wrench, ratchet, bolt &
nut (more than once)

Rob
becida@comcast.net

At  2/19/2012 01:31 PM, Jeff Lincoln wrote:
>Ok gang - if I blew out the clutch slave cylinder what are the chances that
>anything else (clutch/master) is also damaged?
>
>Sorry that may be a rather impossible question - but I asked anyway.
>
>Still having issues with getting water in my gas tank (that's another
>topic) and Friday I had to nurse poor Gertie home - well it required a lot
>of "feathering" the clutch to keep her going and the cylinder must have had
>enough. Clutch pedal has no resistance at all - resivoir was way way low -
>and there is a lot of fluid under the slave cylinder.
>
>Any tricks to be aware of when replacing that bad boy?
>
>--
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>'85 GL (Gertie)
>'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus