1990 Cougar 5sp
I have been trying to fix my clutch now for over a week. here's what I’ve done: new master cylinder, new hydraulic line, new slave cylinder and the clutch it self was new a year ago. I know they can be hard to bleed by all the posts I've read. But we have tried just about everything. The clutch feels great, good pedal, lots of travel & you can feel it engage, but it is not engaged and we can not get any more air out of the system. The only thing that I find strange is using a flat blade screw driver I can push the release bearing back off the clutch fins about 3/8" before it stops and will not go back any further. this tells me there is still air in the slave cylinder ...BUT as soon as you step on the pedal and it moves just slightly the release bearing starts pushing the clutch fins in?!?! Because of all the new parts I'm thinking the system just needs to be bled. I'm I missing something here?? I'm thinking of pulling the slave cylinder off and bench bleeding it, can this be done? Does anyone have a fool proof way of bleeding these systems?
Could my clutch it self be seized?
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have been trying to fix my clutch now for over a week. here's what I’ve done: new master cylinder, new hydraulic line, new slave cylinder and the clutch it self was new a year ago. I know they can be hard to bleed by all the posts I've read. But we have tried just about everything. The clutch feels great, good pedal, lots of travel & you can feel it engage, but it is not engaged and we can not get any more air out of the system. The only thing that I find strange is using a flat blade screw driver I can push the release bearing back off the clutch fins about 3/8" before it stops and will not go back any further. this tells me there is still air in the slave cylinder ...BUT as soon as you step on the pedal and it moves just slightly the release bearing starts pushing the clutch fins in?!?! Because of all the new parts I'm thinking the system just needs to be bled. I'm I missing something here?? I'm thinking of pulling the slave cylinder off and bench bleeding it, can this be done? Does anyone have a fool proof way of bleeding these systems?
Could my clutch it self be seized?
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.