How do you bleed the clutch?

[mudpie]

I have an 02 with a manual. and based on the trouble I had trying to find the parts in the first place, it's pretty rare. Everything seems unique to the 02. Anyway, I'm trying to bleed the clutch and having zero success.
The slave cylinder only has 1 line coming out of it, and that's for the brake fluid line. There's no bleeder. There is a fitting on the firewall that has a bleeder, but it's upstream from the slave, so I don't know how effective it's supposed to be.
I've heard stories about just pumping the pedal and it self bleeds I've pumped it maybe 100 times and it's not gotten any better. I've bleed the line with the screw on the firewall, and I get fresh, clear fluid out of it, but still no pedal.
I saw a video that talked about air in the clutch master, and given that my old slave basically exploded and drained the system, I suppose I should follow that procedure for bleeding the master cylinder that mounts to the pedal, but that still leaves me wondering how to bleed the slave. Every video I see is about bleeding the slave that has the bleeder screw on it. None of the videos for this single line cylinder.
I'll see what I've got for pics and try and attach some. In the meantime, if anybody has experience with the 02, I'd appreciate any input.

 

[mudpie]

This is the new slave I installed. One line in, no bleeder. Based on what it said on the box it came in, it apparently is used on some Mustang's too.

 

[FordFlintrock]

I found this for you.

Search "no bleed screw clutch slave"

 

[Josh P]

When I manual swapped my aerostar van I used a similar slave cylinder with a mustang T5 transmission. There was no bleeder, I pulled the C clip on the clutch master cylinder and lifted the rod until all the air was out.

 

[410Fortune]

Do like Josh said!

Mustangs also have clutch adjustment available at the clutch pedal… check your 02 it may have adjustments at the clutch pedal as well

Yes your 02
Manual trans is extremely rare (unfortunately) I don’t think they made them in 03 and02 was the first year of the new body style, we call a gen iii explorer

 

[jr230]

When I manual swapped my aerostar van I used a similar slave cylinder with a mustang T5 transmission. There was no bleeder, I pulled the C clip on the clutch master cylinder and lifted the rod until all the air was out.

the trans was great i had 99 ohv 4l but the slave cyl on the throw-out bearing was a real stupid thing but car makers wanted to get rid of stick shifts my went bad at time i could not afford to get it fixed and eventually h had to get rid of it but still bought in bew in 99 ran great to 2018
and set brakes, shocks couple batteries and thermostat got 85kfrom the recalled tires so 1 set tires cannot really complain my bough fugative from junkyard for 250 got 8 months until found 04 for 2k just got extreme raddle of death and only exp have 185 to 200k ot there the tauris front drive tarsus so probably my last explorer certainly don't want a 2.3 4cyl turbo ford shot itself in both feet the last 5 yrs