It wouldnt be so bad, as the truck has 337,000 miles on it, but I put
a new master cylinder on it less than a year ago when the $%#@!!!!
slave cylinder went into meltdown. That ******* wraps around the pilot
shaft INSIDE the bell housing and carries the throw out bearing. So to
replace it, you have to drop the tranny. And its nearly all plastic
and when it goes into melt down..it really does melt down.
Gunner,
Short story - helped my nephew replace the slave on his 94 Ranger -
(Yeah, inside the bell housing), so dropped driveshaft, crossmember,
exhaust, transfer case, tranny and bell housing - Got his "new" one
out of the box - it looked about the same, but was made out of metal
instead of plastic, otherwise about the same - and I was glad to see
they changed it to a metal case... installed, reassembled everything,
got ready to connect the line (one of those special pop-on connectors)
and it wouldn't fit - no way, no how.... Parts shop said bring it
back - tore everything apart again, returned original out of the truck
and the one he bought - here someone, someplace, put the wrong slave
in the box with his correct part number on it. Parts guy pulled
another off the shelf and it was plastic like the OEM part....
reinstalled AGAIN, and this time the connector fit (like we didn't try
that before installing it, hee hee )..... Anyway - helluva job made
worse by some jokester or dumbass somewhere... sigh
Ken.



I figured that it was time to replace everything clutch related, so I
did.

Gunner


"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except
in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism
proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is
merely the difference between murder and suicide."
- Ayn Rand, from "Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main
Weapons"