potatodog
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- City, State
- Hudson, CO
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1991 Explorer
I'm running into the strangest problem bleeding the clutch on my girlfriend's 91 Explorer that I've ever experienced. Her Explorer had 192,000 miles on it when it got run out of antifreeze, (it's a long story, please don't get me started). I found a wrecked 94 Explorer with an automatic with only 104,000 miles on it. I successfully swapped the 4.0 and it runs great. A lot of the thanks for that goes to the advice I got from the forums on this website. Thank you all very much. As we all know, when you break apart the cases for any reason, you put a new clutch and slave cylinder into it. It's just good insurance. I also replaced the master cylinder. After using 3 pints of DOT3, and bench bleeding the master cylinder, I've run into a strange problem. When the engine is off, I've got a good, hard clutch pedal. After the engine is running, the pedal immediately softens up and won't allow me to put it in gear. I shut it off, step down on the pedal, start the engine, and it works perfectly until I depress the clutch pedal again with the engine running. Then it's too soft to allow me to put it into gear. Please help. This is not the first one these I've done, but this is the first time I've run into this particular problem! Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Fred
Fred