My slave cylinder went on Friday and found out I have to drop the tranny to replace it. I'm going to do the rear main, carrier bearing, u joints, and put in an 11inch clutch. Any suggestions on anything else I should do while its out?

 

Have the flywheel resurfaced. Most mechanics can do it on a brake lathe.

 

if it isnt burnt you can scuff it up with a Surface Prep disk just as easy

 

Hope you have a warm place to work there! My nephew lives in Flag: he always tells us the temp. when he calls.

I replaced clutch and slave in my '96 F-150, 4X4, 4.9L (300 six-cylinder) no real surprises except, I could not remove the input shaft pilot bearing in the crankshaft: all trickery failed, including filling with grease & driving in a snug fit plug. So left the old one in there. I believe the truck came from factory with an 11" clutch.

Aside: Clutch had started slipping on uphill pulls, in 5th. gear, so bought replacement clutch. Removal of starter revealed some funny-looking debris in clutch housing: it was mummified mice, 3 or 4 of them. Upon removal of the transmission, reason for slippage was apparent: Mice had brought lots of long strands of grass into clutch housing, which wound itself up into a rope, jammed between pressure plate release fingers and back of plate, thereby causing incomplete force on the disc! Old clutch was still very serviceable, but since I had already purchased new, I installed it, then sought to find out how the little beasts had gotten in.

Two holes on back side of upper of clutch housing, about quarter-sized. I glued screen over those 2 holes using silicone rubber. Thought I had seen it all! imp

 

Same exact thing happened to me!! Ive never say anything like it before. Just got done with everything about an hour ago