No clutch
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No clutch
Hi, new to the forums here so I apologize if I post this in the wrong area. But I have a 2000 Ranger, and my clutch went out on me one night. Thinking it had just needed bled, I did exactly that. I had about half a clutch afterwards and was not satisfied. I watched tutorials on how to bench bleed and get my clutch fully functional. After an hour of fighting with the snap ring, I finally got it. As I pulled the piston out, no fluid came out, and I reached all the way to the springs when I finally gave up. Now I have NO clutch. Any ideas? I believe more air got trapped inside when I pulled the piston out. I put everything back together correctly, aside from the snap ring, as I don't have pliers currently. *UPDATE* I bench bled once again, and fluid came out, now I have maybe a 1/4 of a clutch. I'm going to try and bleed it on the transmission next, but I think it could be internal.
Last edited by Ironman_4.0; Jan 6, 2018 at 02:26 PM.
Welcome to the forum
Clutch system has 3 main parts
reservoir, master and slave
When master piston is up there is a valve that is open to the reservoir, so if you did remove pistons keeper C clip and piston came up a bit then fluid from the reservoir should have started to flow out of master from gravity feed since reservoir is higher than master.
If that didn't happen then master or reservoir is bad, they come as a set
The clutch master and reservoir is the same setup as Brake master and reservoir, just couldn't put the clutch reservoir on top of clutch master.
When you push masters piston in, it closes off the valve to reservoir and all fluid is forced down the line into the slave(same as Brakes work)
So system is fairly simple but can still be hard to troubleshoot.
Brake fluid/hydraulic fluid is used because it doesn't compress very much under pressure, air does compress under pressure, so any air in the system means, that air must be compressed first to its maximum pressure before any movement of brake fluid can occur.
So you could waste 1/4 to 1/2 of clutch pedal travel just compressing the air in the system before slave even begins to move, so pressure plate never releases clutch disc fully
Clutch system has 3 main parts
reservoir, master and slave
When master piston is up there is a valve that is open to the reservoir, so if you did remove pistons keeper C clip and piston came up a bit then fluid from the reservoir should have started to flow out of master from gravity feed since reservoir is higher than master.
If that didn't happen then master or reservoir is bad, they come as a set
The clutch master and reservoir is the same setup as Brake master and reservoir, just couldn't put the clutch reservoir on top of clutch master.
When you push masters piston in, it closes off the valve to reservoir and all fluid is forced down the line into the slave(same as Brakes work)
So system is fairly simple but can still be hard to troubleshoot.
Brake fluid/hydraulic fluid is used because it doesn't compress very much under pressure, air does compress under pressure, so any air in the system means, that air must be compressed first to its maximum pressure before any movement of brake fluid can occur.
So you could waste 1/4 to 1/2 of clutch pedal travel just compressing the air in the system before slave even begins to move, so pressure plate never releases clutch disc fully
Last edited by RonD; Jan 6, 2018 at 03:07 PM.
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Thanks for the info! I did get some fluid to run out this time around, and I'm back to a little bit of clutch now. Once it warms up I'll get back to it eventually. However, the black clip that keeps the pedal connected to the piston broke, so I'll need a new one. Any idea where I can find one, or what its called?
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