How do you bleed the Clutch Slave Cylinder

[smerriman]

I have a 2002 Ford Explorer Sport Trac. My clutch petal is real spongy and when I removed the cap off of the clutch master cylinder reservoir it was empty. I filled it up and it sucked it down so I filled it up again and now it stays full but I know I need to bleed it.
i am not the smartest person so I am not sure where I need to go to bleed this and how I need to do this.
Does anyone have any instructions they can send me please.

Thanks,
Susan

 

[mustang6878]

I Googled "bleed clutch slave cylinder" and it gave me lots of options. Here is one showing a 2001 Ford Ranger, got to figure it is about the same. Otherwise you can Google it too...the internet is your friend...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1KDCAhTLc

 

[smerriman]

Thanks! This helps

 

[mustang6878]

Glad to do it, come back and let us know how you did, we all share in the joy of "fixing it yourself".

 

[smerriman]

It turned out that my clutch master cylinder has no bleeder but we did find one on the slave cylinder. It took about 3 rounds of bleeding it but now I have my clutch petal back and the I am able to shift into each gear now without any problems. Before when I pushed my clutch in it wasn't completely disengaging. While I was driving, I would just get up to speed and it would go into gear easier. It is working great now and I am very happy. I am not sure where I have a leak at yet. That is going to take more investigations. Right now I am happy to have things working good again.

 

[mustang6878]

Way to go, it's pretty fun when you can fix it yourself. Thanks for checking back in, we like to hear your successful stories!