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- '93 Ranger XLT 4X4
I have ~200,000 miles on my clutch. ( ) I have been having what I figure are failing slave cylinder symptoms for a year or two. They have been slowly getting worse, meaning it used to be hard to put in first and reverse, now it's all gears.
This week, I had an episode where it was like I had no clutch at all for about an hour. The clutch resevoir was just slightly low, so I topped it off and I've had clutch action since then. But I'm pretty sure I'm in the last minutes of my borrowed time.
I plan to replace everything clutch wise. But I'm wondering, what kind of damage if any, have I been doing to the tranny by driving it with the hard shift problem for so long? I get some noises sometimes when shifting, but I don't know it that's clutch parts or tranny.
I want to drain the tranny today and see if there are shavings or worse in there. Is that okay, or better I just leave it until the clutch job, which may be a week or two? It has synthetic in there now. If I change it now, I will replace it with non-synthetic for the week or two. Would that be bad in any way? It's the M5OD, by the way.
TOA for any advice.
And if you are in the San Diego area, want to do the clutch for $ ? It is beyond my skills.
This week, I had an episode where it was like I had no clutch at all for about an hour. The clutch resevoir was just slightly low, so I topped it off and I've had clutch action since then. But I'm pretty sure I'm in the last minutes of my borrowed time.
I plan to replace everything clutch wise. But I'm wondering, what kind of damage if any, have I been doing to the tranny by driving it with the hard shift problem for so long? I get some noises sometimes when shifting, but I don't know it that's clutch parts or tranny.
I want to drain the tranny today and see if there are shavings or worse in there. Is that okay, or better I just leave it until the clutch job, which may be a week or two? It has synthetic in there now. If I change it now, I will replace it with non-synthetic for the week or two. Would that be bad in any way? It's the M5OD, by the way.
TOA for any advice.
And if you are in the San Diego area, want to do the clutch for $ ? It is beyond my skills.