Recent content by benspilk09

Pulled the trans again after verifying that my slave cylinder was at the end of its stroke. Turned out I needed to reset the self adjusting mechanism on the pressure plate.

To clarify I put in a new clutch disc but had the pressure plate and flywheel resurfaced by a machine shop, it looked fine with no broken or warped springs so I didn't get a new one. The clutch worked great with a light pedal before even though it was burnt down to the rivets. There isn't a...

Wow this truck is about to get scrapped, flipped the disc around and still is doing the same thing. Any ideas?

I put a new clutch in too, and will be putting a new master in this afternoon since the plastic pushrod broke on me. I found out that I put the clutch plate in backwards, I remember reading which way it should face but for some reason I still did it wrong, I guess thats what you get for staying...

I had my engine (3.0) out to replace the rear main seal and oil pan gasket and also threw in a new slave cylinder since the bearing felt a little rough, but after getting it all together and bled my clutch won't disengage. It has pedal, way more than its supposed to, and there is pressure in...

You can definitely catch a fingernail in them. Not sure if I was losing oil pressure through them, but they are scored up decently bad. I searched around and found that is just a casting number that appears on many different engine parts so I gave up and ordered a std. set of bearings, I'll...

Just bought a 2000 ranger, 3.0 5 speed 4wd but the oil pan gasket was leaking like crazy so I pulled the engine to replace it, the clutch, and the rear main seal. I pulled off a couple of rod caps and they were a little scored so I'm going to throw a set of them in too, I was wondering if...