Damn Hydraulic Clutch!!!

[InTheStix]

I have just came in from the garage totally disgusted again....I have been trying to get my clutch to disengage for the last 3 wks....I have bled it every way known to man....still getting no more than about 1/2" travel of the release assembly....the system has no air in it!!!! Go ahead and tell me guys,I'm going to have to pull the trans out and replace my slave cylinder-right??? I wish to hell my Ranger was an automatic!!!!!

 

[Hardwareman]

Yeah, pretty much.

If it makes you feel any better I've been down that road before myself. It was so bad that I think I had to pull the tranny 2 or 3 times!

Did you put a new slave cylinder in it or did you do what I did and reuse the old one. I swore up and down that the slave was good, but sure enough as soon as I changed it all went well.




Allen

 

[InTheStix]

I re-used the old slave-guess that's what I get for trusting a part in my Ford that has been sitting for 4 years....I did drop the trans and remove the slave today-it is very cruddy and gritty and moves roughly-just got back from Advance Auto Parts(only 3 mi from home) with a new slave cylinder in hand and my pocket $100.00 lighter.....oh well,I've had enough for one day-I'll put it back together tomorrow.....Yee Haw!!!!

 

[c1skout]

My friend works at the local Ford garage and he says whenever they pull a tranny it gets put back together with a new slave. I've had luck with them by not seperating the hydraulics, just slide the tranny down and back till there's just enough room to r&r the clutch.

 

[InTheStix]

I'll think twice before I ever separate my hydraulic's again....this has been a major PITA!!!.Hopefully I'll not have to,I only did this because I took the truck completely apart to re-paint the frame and replace a rusted out core support(all of which was easier to do than get my clutch working!) while my Pontiac GTP has sat outside in the lousy West Virginia weather.

 

[Hardwareman]

Did you get it?




Allen

 

[grnrngr]

Are you sure there wasn't a spacer in the tube? After looking forever and finally finding a replacement trans for mine, swapped it in and bolted everything back together and just didn't have anything. would almost get enough bite to pull itself forward a little...I remember reading in the sheet that came with the new clutch kit that some of the old throwout bearings had a metal spacer at the very back of the slave cylinder. Looked it over before putting it back together and didn't see it, pulled it back out, and compared it to the old slave unit on my other trans and sure enough...big spacer. Put the one with no spacer in and no problem...about a 5 hour learning experience, but I'm good at swapping trannies now...but I still don't know how to get the spacer out of that otherwise good slave unit