'97 Ranger with a manual transmission. Help!!! LOL!

[John Jeakle]

Just wanted to Hi to everyone here. New to all this stuff, but i was hoping to just maybe get some answers that no one else seems to be able or willing to provide. Thanks in advance for any help u can offer....i have a 97 ranger 5 speed 4.0 eng. thought the clutch went out put a new one on. it ended up being the trans. the only one i found was from a 88 w\a 2.9 eng. change the trans over. it won't go into gear or move my question is are the trans compatible. also when the peedle is pressed in the slave cylinder does'nt move

 

[John Jeakle]

thanks

 

[dkchrist]

Did you bleed the clutch hydraulics? It seems you have a air in the system, or a bad master or slave. The transmissions are compatible, however, I don't think the 2.9 trans will hold up very well behind the 4.0.

BTW, Welcome to the forum!

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

welcome

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! I've moved your thread to the transmission & transfer case section.

 

[brokenranger]

I just did a auto to manual swap on my 95 and found out that you need the slave cylinder to match the year of the truck, not the year of the trans. I pulled the trans out of a 91 exploder, and got a new slave to match the trans. They look the same, other than the 91-92 is a alum. body and the 95-97 is plastic. With the alum. bodied one i could only get half of the 10mm stroke on the release bearing. So i pulled the trans, transfer case again put in the 95-97 slave and also had to change the line from the master to the slave, cus some bright engineer had the idea to change the style of the quick coupler as well and boom it worked. So the internal volume of the two slaves must not be the same. Just a thought, so measure the release bearing travel.