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My grandpa and I replaced my clutch and all related components,(slave cylinder, pilot bearing, pressure plate, clutch disc) on my Ford Ranger 98 2.5L 2wd. After bleeding the slave cylinder I started my truck and tried to put it into gear and it won't go. Even if I try to force it it won't go in. It's acting as if there is air in the line but I'm pretty confident there isn't. Something isn't right and I can't figure it out.  

how did you bleed the clutch slave....


pumping the pedal then opening the bleeder screw is not really the right way to do it..

  i have known professional mechanics run gallons of fluid through trying to get pedal...

you can feel when the clutch pedal is working...

usually i open the bleeder screw slightly...  with someone keeping the tank close to full...   with my hand ... tap the clutch pedal.   again and again... rapidly...   this sends little pulses of fluid through the system ... pushing the air out...

what happens is when you depress the pedal.. the seals go past  the fill opening and it starts making pressure...  so when you release the pedal.. there is suction created in the line and slave cylinder..      so lightly tapping on the pedal with your hand..  will push little pulses into the lines and out the bleeder screw... without creating any vacuum...    then close the bleeder screw...   try the pedal.. see if you can feel it moving the slave cylinder and clutch levers...

there is one other option that i have thought about but never tried...    most parts stores and speed shops have speed bleeders for brake systems...   these are replacement bleeder screws with check valves in them...   so you loosen it slightly.. pump the brake pedal... the fluid goes out.. and no air comes back.. if you do it right..  there needs to be some kind of seal around the threads... i really have not tried them yet..


so got the old slave cylinder...  see if the bleeder screw is the same as the new one...    take it to the parts store and see if they have a pair of speed bleeders..

you can also pick up a vacuum bleeder kit from the parts store... i like the brass one from harbor freight..  but most parts stores will have them...    it still takes a wrap of tape around the threads to properly seal the threads to use it properly..   TRY not to get tape in the system... only on the outer threads...

hope this helps...

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