97 ranger slipping

[Tommy2tone77]

I installed a new clutch and slave 3 months back and its now slipping real bad all of a sudden, if I bleed it, I get clutch back for about a mile or so, then slipping bad again, also pedal bottoms out hard 2" before it hits the floor like it usually does when fictional right, ran great for 3 months

 

[1990RangerinSK]

How does it shift? I'm guessing that it's hard to shift, and it grinds.

That sounds to me (and I'm guessing, here) like the clutch master cylinder is shot.

 

[Tommy2tone77]

Not at all,

How does it shift? I'm guessing that it's hard to shift, and it grinds.

That sounds to me (and I'm guessing, here) like the clutch master cylinder is shot.

Not at all, shifts great, no grinding at all

 

[Tommy2tone77]

How does it shift? I'm guessing that it's hard to shift, and it grinds.

That sounds to me (and I'm guessing, here) like the clutch master cylinder is shot.

I have a pre filled master ordered, so I'll keep this thread updated as I go, maybe between me and you guys I can get this whooped. Honestly I'm a chevy man and this is the first ford I've owned in many years, I bought it not knowing the slave system was a bad design, truck was slipping when I got it, so I tore trans out and replaced slave and clutch, old clutch disk looked good still

 

[Tommy2tone77]

So I just seen on my frame rail where the slave line attaches to, where it bends hard and turns up towards the master, the frame rail is wet as is the line itself and looks like its had a slow leak for some time because it has already caked up like grease on the line, so I'll buy a new line or order one anyway, the parts stores don't seem to carry any of this stuff

 

[Tommy2tone77]

Well I got the line changed, tore master out, changed line, hung the reservoir up like they say to do on youtube, bubbles automatically started coming up, I tapped the master and hard line with my wrench til bubbles stopped, capped reservoir off, wrestled it back into the truck, hooked line in down below, zero pressure in pedal, tried bleeding by pumping pedal for about an hour, gained very little pressure, no where near enough, what am I doing wrong!?!?

 

[sgtsandman]

You need to pump the master cylinder while it was in the bench to complete the bench bleed.

Once installed, you need to gravity bleed the system in order to make sure air is removed from the rest of the system. The will be at least one air bubble created during the reconnection of the line to the connector on the slave cylinder.