Thread: More 94 Ford hydraulic clutch problems

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Here's what I found out today: The parts are all the correct ones, Firewall is not cracked, a full stroke on the peddle moves the Throwout bearing 3/8 inch.
I took it for a ride around the section, worked pretty good, went right into gear with no problems, had 1 inch of clutch...... but at the forth mile it was again hard to get in gear.
Tomorrow I'll bleed it myself. I have the front of the truck on ramps, will pry the bearing back and then bleed it, I'll put a clear bleeding tube on it to see the bubbles. Hope this works.
The Ford garage here wants $77.00 to do it, they figure an hour.

[QUOTE=DennyW]Tom, I have a Bronco II that has a hydraulic clutch, and have worked on many like it.... If you don't work that air out of the master cylinder, you can bleed it all day, and it won't work. Pushing and holding the throwout bearing in is fine, but if any air is trapped, even a little bubble, you will have a problem. Plus loose some of your pedal height, because the air cushions, adsorbs, compresses the push.[/QUOTE

OK, I'll take off the line to the slave and put a tooth pick in the line to open the Check valve and once there's no bubbles coming out I'll reattached it, and hold in on the slave.

I hope this works, really getting tired of it. I've only had it ten years, like to drive'm for fifteen years.

Well I went out to work on the pickup and my son had all ready got it fixed, he took the pushrod off the clutch master cylinder and threaded it out about an 1/8 of an inch and walla....... that's all that it took. Have all kinds of travel now, works just like a brand new truck.