[Vwdiesel] Caddy brakes

[Erik Lane]

Sorry that I wasn't clearer earlier. The clutch gets really soft. You
can pump it up and it will work a little, but it gets hard to shift
when it's soft. I can bleed it and everything is good for at least a
few weeks, I think. At least it took her a couple months before she
complained to me about it. I worked on it a couple weeks ago to bleed
the system again, and as far as I know it's still good. I'm just
worried that the problem will come back again. At that point I will be
living up there so I'll have better access to the car and I can look
really carefully and see if there's anything loose. That's still my
main suspicion, I was just hoping that someone would recognize the
symptoms and be able to diagnose it from just that.


>   Don't know if it's a "something else" but a trick I learned
>
> from working on an MB...  The only way to properly bleed it is
>
> to connect a piece of hose from a front caliper bleeder to the clutch slave
> bleeder.  Open
>
> the clutch bleeder.   Have someone pump the brake pedal.  When they go down,
> open the
>
> caliper bleeder.  Up? Close it.   Repeat until no bubbles in the clutch
> master.  It was the ONLY
>
> way to get a clutch after we replaced either the master or slave, don't
> recall which.
>
>      Loren

So, just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, you basically
are using the fluid from the brake master to push backwards through
the entire clutch system until the clutch master cylinder is bled?
That sure sounds like a roundabout way to do it, but if nothing else
works, and that does then I guess you do what you have to! Please
correct me if I'm understanding it wrong, but it sounds to me like it
doesn't apply, since I'm able to get a good clutch pedal that lasts
for at least a couple weeks if not months before the problem shows up
again. (As long as it's still working now and hasn't gotten worse.
It's hard to know since I don't get a chance to talk to her all that
often, and when we do it's usually other things that we talk about.)

Thanks everyone!
Erik