Clutch change question

[79broncojosh]

I have just purchased a 93 explorer sport with the 5 spd tranny, that needs a clutch I believe. It slips fretty bad when you get on it in 4th and 5th gear. My question is do they have the hydraulic line tool at autozone? and does the y pipe have to be pulled everytime or wont I know till I get to that point?
Just looking at it it seems like there is enough room to get the tranny out.

I had a 84 4x4 ranger that i used for off road and changed the clutch in that several times without removing the exhaust. Just wondered if it was the same, thanks for the help

 

[RangerX]

That tool is fairly cheap, but I've read of one or two people here that it didn't work well for them. I used a very small flat blade screwdriver when I did mine, and it worked.

It would be easier to remove the Y pipe, than to work around it. A couple guys here have dropped the trans without removing the pipe. When I got to that point, It didn't look very doable, so I removed mine.

There's a couple threads around here about changing out the clutch, do a search and you might pick up some other opinions on these two things.

 

[Willard]

I was able to remove my auto tranny without removing the y-pipe. It was really tight though. If I could have gotten the y-pipe off, I would have, but no matter what I tried it was stuck so I just left it.

 

[79broncojosh]

thanks guys was just curious, was going to start spraying the bolts with nut buster if it needed to be done for sure.