"Anyone care to describe how "easy" it is to bleed the clutch lines
in an '84 Vanagon?"

The book said that the clutch system can only be pressure bled.  I couldn't 
understand a reason for that, so I just did it the old fashion way.  I have 
to admit, it took about a dozen open bleeder - push clutch - close bleeder - 
release clutch cycles before I saw any evidence that I was getting anywhere, 
but other than that, the process went as expected.

Mike   '84 Vanagon