I'm not sure what your asking ? how to ? how to know if you need to ? Where is it ? SO I will spill what i do know as I'm getting ready to do just this same thing and will fill in some blanks after. I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination so keep that firmly in mind.Clutch pedal went out completely on my 88 Ford f150 after getting mushy for a long time. mine has the 302 5 speed and the slave cylinder is in the bell housing and the tranny has to drop to get to it. There is a inspection port under a rubber plug in the bell housing from here you can see the slave. If it is leaking its bad from what I know there should be no fluid around it. Mine was not from all we could tell. so we bleed the air from the system and thought we had it kicked but after I replaced the master the slave started leaking. fluid ran out of the bell housing and I could see a drip from the front of the slave. So we are going to drop the tranny and change it today. from what we can tell getting the tranny out of the way is going to be the hard part. I will fill in this evening after. Good luck maybe your lucky and have one with the slave n the outside of the tranny, that's the easy one from what i understand. E
you just replace it
You Must remove the trans to access the slave... on the 5 speed for sure.
4 nuts under the dash around the brake pedal
if its a standard/manual truck. slave cylinder would be located on the firewall next to the brake booster, and would take standard dot 3 brake fluid.
Yes , the slave cylinder for a HYDRAULIC clutch is inside the manual transmission bellhousing. It slides over the transmission input shaft and is bolted to the transmission
Yes , the slave cylinder for your hydraulic clutch is inside the manual transmission bell housing. It slides over the input shaft to the transmission and is bolted in place inside the transmission . To CHANGE the slave cylinder the transmission has to be removed , but the lines to the slave cylinder CAN BE BLEAD from a fitting that extends outside of the transmission bellhousing
couple of different reasons for this. most likely, there is no fluid presure in the line to the slave cylinder due to a leak in the line or slave cylinder itself. second, less likely but i have seen it happen; the throw out bearing disintegrated leaving nothing between the fork and the presure plate so when the slave cylinder push rod extends, there is nothing to push it back. problem one would need a new line or slave cylider and your rolling. problem two means the transmission is coming out and you may as well do the clutch while your in there. hope that helps.
Bad or improperly installed throw out bearing? broken throw out bearing fork? hydraulic? bad slave cylinder?
Best answer I've found is here (I have a 2001 F150): http://www.clutchwizard.com/fordtruck.htm Basically the problem is that the master cylinder is at the wrong angle to bleed the system completely with the master cylinder attached to the firewall. You have to take the master cylinder off the firewall and detach it from the clutch pedal, then tilt it to get the air into the line. After that, you bleed it in more or less the usual way, with a helper operating the bleed valve, but pushing the piston directly instead of pushing the clutch pedal. The alternative is to assemble the whole system off the truck and bleed it on a bench. Good thing they made the master cylinder and the brake cylinder out of PLASTIC, and put the slave cylinder INSIDE the bell housing, huh? (My slave cylinder went at less than 60K).
you need to be more specific on year model there are a few different designs that all remove differently
no it would not.
how do you adjst clutch on 87ford f150