scoyhis

Hi there. I have a 89' F150 with 5 speed trans. Was just driving down the road one day, and all of a sudden the clutch pedal became rock hard. Had to stomp on it to get it to go down. Then it just stayed down and won't come up. After I got it home I looked under and seen that where the end of the hydraulic clutch line goes into the transmission (slave cylinder) was disconnected. I have no idea what made that happen. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

NGM

Sounds like the slave cylinder needs to be replaced and the line. I saw somewhere recently a parts house sells the master cyl, slave cyl and the line all in one. Might want to check into that.

scoyhis

OK. So I pulled the tranny, put in new slave cylinder ($125!!!), used master cylinder and line. Started to bleed the clutch, after a couple of pushes the pedal was hard again. Looked under and yes, the line was disconnected from the slave cylinder again. Won't go back in because metal retaining clip come out with it. I'm out of ideas. Mabey is something wrong with the clutch, or is the whole tranny just junk?

(BTW slave cylinder come with lifetime warranty from autozone.)