First rebuild

[bryan.pate]

Im new here to the forum. My first truck was a 89 ext cab 4cyl manual ranger and was ran over by a semi, second truck was a 94 single cab 4cyl manual ranger and i gave it to my brother when i joiend the AF. 5yrs and 2 kids later, i just bought a 86 ext cab 2.9 6cyl 4x4 ranger and couldn't be more excited. i bought it for 400 bucks and it ran. but a mile down the road from the guy i bought it from (which i knew was about to happen) the clutch went out and had white smoke from under the hood. it smelled like a clutch burning and i suspect that the white smoker was the clutch fluid leaking onto the exhaust manifold. But luckily (since i bought the truck an hour away from home) a friendly redneck came up and started talking to me and i found out that has a small shop (still shade tree mechanic but trying to get a shop up and going) he instantly fixed the high idle problem by turning the distributor cap. So he said he was gonna change out the pilot bearing, master/slave cylinder, and the pressure plate. I got a clutch kit pretty much to change out the whole system minus the lines. Also about a quarter mile before the clutch completly gave out i could hear something spinning ( not a good spinning either) from what seemed directly under the shifter. Does it sound like i got everthing ill need to get it good the drive home? any help would be awesome cause i feel like im gonna be asking alot of questions that haynes wont have the answer for

 

[martin]

Two kids in five years and you still have money to buy a truck? well done. It's difficult to say until you have everything apart but it sounds like you have all the major stuff covered. good luck with it and keep us posted on the progress.