No i am not putign this in a Z. I am haveing trubles with my truck. My clutch lost pressure. checked resavor and it was empty. I refilled the tank and blead the lines. The Slave on this trany is on the Inside of the bell houseing. Clutch still don't have the pressure it's supposed to. I think my throw out berrying went out. or slave i can't tell. I have tryed to pull trany out, and no luck. I blead the clutch like i would breaks, Amd i doing it right? Truck will not shift while it is runing. and only way to move truck is to start it in gear. With clutch pressed hard against the fire wall. it still drives as if it's a auto. What does this sound like?

 

If the slave is in the bellhousing, how are you bleeding it? I'm not familiar with your setup so you'll have to give me a visual here.

A bad throwout bearing wont cause a complete loss of pressure (unless it disentegrated). If the clutch fork bent or fell out of place that would do it. But thats drastic. If your reservoir went empty then the problem is most likely hydraulic, and not a mechanical failure. You may need to bleed the clutch master independantly if it was completely dry.

 

First, there is a accsess port for a socket to get to the bleeder. and I Can drive the truck, But i have to start it in gear. and it's hell to shift while driving.

 

just like this chicks camero up here, it was the throw out bearing, i wouldn't drive it to much w/o a clutch tho, she has no first gear now. Its hell to shift w/o clutch but it can be done, it sucks...

 

hummmm. electronic master. go figure. from what i have learned that clutch system basicly is just plan out werid. the master has a electronic switch. and when you predd down, it draws fluid from the resavor that sits like a overflow tank. it pushes it down the the slave and the slave is where most of the work is done. instead of the master doin all the work. the master is lastic, and is only abotu as bigg as a hotdog. the slave is mounted inside the bell houseing. and has a small access hole for a socket to bleed. the clutch line is connected to transmission via quick dissconnect. both the slave and throwout barring are dealer items. slave will run you around 76$ and throwout is 43$ Now, I have to take both front tire's off. Pull the slpash gaurds. Just to reach the top two trany bolts. Oh and the starter is on the driver side 10 bolts total for trany. 4 12 point bolts for driveshaft. and 4 2-3 wire connector's for trany. Wish me luck.

 

best of luck, sounds like some work ahead of you...

 

The same thing happened to my 94 ranger, I had a slave cylinder go out, and then had a clutch spring break off of the clutch plate. I replaced the slave cylinder with a $60 unit from Autozone, and bought a new clutch kit while I was at it. Now the system works great. Something I had to try (and I know it's not normal) to get my clutch lines bled, was to open the bleeder screw, and pump the clutch a couple times. It still has a tiny bit of air in it, but it created pressure fairly quick.

A word of advice: the transmissions in the rangers are EXTREMELY heavy and awkward. I had to have my dad help me stab it back up in the truck. Also, for some reason, the transmission won't slide right up onto the engine (there is a little bit of a gap when you stab the input shaft from the tranny into the flywheel), so you might need to thread a bolt in, and use it to pull the tranny and the motor together.