clutct

[steinbru at vnet.ibm.com]

Ref:  Your note of Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:20:46 -0400 (attached)

Hi George, I'm glad to hear the slave is so easy to get out, I think
my '88 5kcsq needs one (but no rush, it's off the road waiting other
projects).  When the slave goes, don't you lose fluid, while when
it's the master you don't necessarily?  I do not lose fluid, and have
bled furiously (using the LF brake caliper nipple as feed).  What
do you think??  --Gary

----------------------------- Note follows ------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:20:46 -0400
To: quattro at audifans.com
From: George Selby <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: clutct

At 06:50 PM 7/1/02, you wrote:
>Does this sound suspiciously like a clutch master cylinder or is it the
>slave?  Replacement of the master isn't too hard to do yourself, is it?
>The slave seems like a much harder to access bit...so hopefully y'all
>will tell me it's just the MC.



Sounds like what happened when the slave cylinder went out on my former
Coupe.  The truth is if either goes out the other is soon to follow, due to
cross contamination, so you should just go ahead and replace (not rebuild)
both.  I had to do a CV joint the same time as the slave cylinder job, and
thus pulled the tranny to do it, but discovered during the job that all
that extra work isn't necessary (slave slid out once I removed the roll pin
holding it in.

George Selby
83 Audi Coupe GT
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George Selby
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