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Granted I'm not as strong as I was a year ago, but I cannot for the life of me remove the cap from the clutch reservoir by hand. I don't want to break it, so before I put the big channellocks to it, I thought I'd ask how it actually comes off. Do you push it down and then turn, or is it just straight threaded on there? It doesn't say on the cap.
If you have some gripper stuff they use in shelving, try wrapping that around the cap and turn. I agree, I would not use channel locks to remove. The caps are plastic and if your do Murphy's law may bite you.
This did not work, but it did inspire me to add some heat to the equation. I borrowed the wife's hairdryer and put it on the cap on high heat for a couple of minutes. I could feel that the cap was indeed warm, but alas that still wasn't quite enough to allow me to turn it by hand. However, while it was still warm I applied leverage via an adjustable wrench that is commonly used to tighten nuts on sink and shower drains, as pictured below. I set the wrench such that it did not squeeze the cap but was just snug on the smooth parts and would catch the raised ridges on the outside edge of the cap. While I had some pliers available to add extra leverage, they were not needed, and the cap actually turned fairly easily since I could get a better hold on it with the wrench.
Once opened, it became obvious that the fluid is in dire need of replacement, and I will do so by the Ranger method to try to improve the clutch feel.
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Clutch reservoir
