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- Lavergne, TN
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- 1984
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My buddies 86 Cherokee is driving everybody INSANE!! 
Please, keep the "it's a Heep" comments to a minimum.....I really need some serious answers if anybody can help. I am posting this to try to help my dad out
86 Heep Cherokee 4wd
2.5 4 banger
ax5 5spd trans.
A while back my buddy started having trouble getting it to go in gear, instead of taking it to my dad who is ASE certified in every category & owns his own shop, he decides to take it to a shady mechanic to try to save money.
The guy replaces the clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing, & master cylinder, does not replace the slave cylinder but was supposed to. VERY LONG story short, it still wouldn't work & he FINALLY brought it to my dad.
Dad tore it all back down & replaced the clutch fork (it had been installed backwards by discount mechanic & ended up getting bent), throwout bearing (wrong one installed before by discount mechanic), slave cylinder, master cylinder, the front shaft that the clutch fork slides on (it was grooved badly from the wrong throwout bearing), & the line from the master cylinder to the slave cylinder ( it had a pin hole & was leaking).
Everything has been replaced & we have bled it until we can't bleed it anymore, it has a decent pedal but it still will not release...........ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS???????!!!!!!!! Dad has been fooling with it for so long, he is taking a HUGE loss on labor & I think he is about to give up, maybe he just needs a fresh mind with an alternate solution?
ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT THE ISSUE COULD BE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
Please, keep the "it's a Heep" comments to a minimum.....I really need some serious answers if anybody can help. I am posting this to try to help my dad out
86 Heep Cherokee 4wd
2.5 4 banger
ax5 5spd trans.
A while back my buddy started having trouble getting it to go in gear, instead of taking it to my dad who is ASE certified in every category & owns his own shop, he decides to take it to a shady mechanic to try to save money.
The guy replaces the clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing, & master cylinder, does not replace the slave cylinder but was supposed to. VERY LONG story short, it still wouldn't work & he FINALLY brought it to my dad.
Dad tore it all back down & replaced the clutch fork (it had been installed backwards by discount mechanic & ended up getting bent), throwout bearing (wrong one installed before by discount mechanic), slave cylinder, master cylinder, the front shaft that the clutch fork slides on (it was grooved badly from the wrong throwout bearing), & the line from the master cylinder to the slave cylinder ( it had a pin hole & was leaking).
Everything has been replaced & we have bled it until we can't bleed it anymore, it has a decent pedal but it still will not release...........ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS???????!!!!!!!! Dad has been fooling with it for so long, he is taking a HUGE loss on labor & I think he is about to give up, maybe he just needs a fresh mind with an alternate solution?
ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT THE ISSUE COULD BE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
