A year or two ago when I replaced my master cylinder and clutch slave cylinder we still had a lot of piled up snow in our driveway.  I did the clutch slave cylinder from inside on my belly.  When the snow melted some more I did a better bleed job on the system from outside.

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:52:18 -0500
From: ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET
Subject: Re: Oil Pressure Switch ....gone
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

And if it's really nasty and you have a camper, you can pull the pad and hatch, drop  the bed and lie there on your tummy doing what you have to do.  Did this at a VW dealership where the salespeople had never seen a Westy.  They were very impressed.  And, yes, it was raining. Dave B.  On 03/31/12, Scott Daniel - Turbovans<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote: Magically I've found that when they do act up and require fiddling with
after exiting the freeway..
seldom is it raining or snowing ..
Besides, that's why VW made the rear hatch so large..
makes a fine roof for working on them if it is raining.