92 Ford F-150 Clutch

[Bigbng]

Gramps has a old Ford F150 standard 5 speed with overdrive. Clutch is slipping, I think it is toast, has a strange burning smell, and right now its parked.
Thanfully, I took it around the corner to see what kind of shape it was in, and luckily inched my way off the road before an 18 wheeler that was coming up on me nearly made a pancake out of me!
No way I could get it over 40 mph, and lucky there weren't any hills in the area of I would have been stranded.
ANYWAYS, has anyone evere changed a cluch on a truck like this, themselves, and is it a difficult job, or should I have a shop do it? I'm going to shop around to see if it is even worthwhile to fix. It's just a good ol' work truck, rust, dings and dents, but still a strong motor. Great for hauling stuff around, without having to worry about damaging the paint etc. if you know what I mean.

 

[captskip9]

Semi easy job

If you have done a clutch job before then you should have no problem with your ford .Here in maryland a new set up Disk ,pressure plate and berring is around $150 bucks .make shure you have the flywheel resurfaced because if the clutch was slipping (smells like hair burning)then the flywheel is scarred and has hard spots and might have some small cracks.should cost around $25 bucks at a machine shop.You should put in a new pilot berring to just to be safe.a repair shop might hit you with a $500-$700 dollar bill for the job so save some money and keep that old work horse a few more years.You might want to replace the u-joints at the same time you do the clutch . I have done a few on my back laying under the truck in the good old days last year that is.

 

[Bigbng]

Hi Catskip9
Yeah I did a clutch by my self when I was a teenager on my Gremlin.... I remember slipping around under the car on my back, and getting tranny fluid through my head (I maintain this led to my premature bald spot on my head.....)
I will probably wait for a couple of days vacation rather try doing it piecemeal on weekends. Thanks for the tip about getting the flywheel machined. I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Opus Dei]

That's a hydraulic clutch. You could have a leaking slave cylinder if it loses fluid underneath, or drains the filler on the firewall. It will have to be bled after installation. That model has the Mazda aluminum transmission, so it's fairly light.

 

[captskip9]

opus dei--- are you thinking of a ranger pickup he has a fullsize f150 , depending on the year it should have a 300 in line 6 or a 302 v8 it might have a hydraulic slave cylinder but the clutch is slipping so it is NO GOOD .

 

[Opus Dei]

No, not thinking of a Ranger

Cap't Skip, the 150s have a light-duty transmission made by Mazda. They started putting them in back in the 80s. I had one in a 1988 150 4x4. When the 250s and 350s went to a 5MOD, they had a heavy-duty transmission made by ZF. I had one in my 1996 F 250. And the 6MOD is the same ZF with a case extension. GM uses that same transmission in their comparable models.

Actually, the clutch can slip if the slave cylinder leaks, but doesn't lose enough seal to keep pressure. But I will grant you that there is a difference between odors and "feel" of a leak as opposed to a burnt disc.

Edit: Here's one quick reference to a Mazda 5MOD transmission in an F-150.

 

[Bigbng]

Yep, 5 speed manual OD on this 6 banger.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I helped a BIL rebuild the 300 6 cylinder in his '90 F150 4x4. It's a two man job to wrestle the transfer case and the transmission down and out, but other than that not too bad.

Remember to put the pilot bearing in the flywheel. We didn't :sb: . I just remembered we also had to take it apart another time to remove a mouse nest from the clutch housing! So that's three times apart.

He's still driving the truck, it has about 230,000 miles. The body is about ready to fall off.

 

[Bigbng]

Well Gramps went ahead and got it fixed, he didn't want to wait for when I had time to do it.
Ended up costing him 600$ including the u-joints, bearings, springs and machining flywheel.
So he's happy, (he was so used to the old clutch slipping, he was stalled it at every light on the way home, until he got the hang of what it's supposed to be like.)



Anyway, thanks for all your opinions, suggestions, comments and help. I guess that leaves me with the headgasket Sundance to fix.