anyone?

 

my 89 22RE gets stuck in gear and the clutch pedal is too soft and it has to be pumped for it to work a little. no leaks though. so it seems like its loosing pressure inside the master cylinder.

 

Nope. They are 13.00 at Autozone.

 

You can get a kit for it but like the guy said above, you might as well just get a new one. They are super cheap and pretty straight forward.

Just make sure they get 4x4 or 2x4... the guys at carquest had to re-order it twice... so i was out of my job for 2 days waiting for it. I suppose I could have slam-shifted lol.

 

Oh I forgot to ask something. Are you familiar with the clutch pedal break pedal bracket going out? It's very common on the older vehicles. It kind of acts like a sea-saw and doesn't push the piston in completely.

 

I did replace the master cylinder instead of rebuilding (not worth it) and yes they are very cheap.

everything is working perfect now. thanks

btw
not familiar with the bracket issue sorry.

 

Well the story goes like this...

When I bought my it had come from a good friend of mine right before he died. Someone abandoned it because a clutch job was too expensive so he did it himself and sold it to me.

It was always so difficult to shift when I bought it. I thought, well its probably the cylinders going out, either the slave or master. So i fixed both of them and after re-bleeding i realized it's just not working. I still can't shift. The transmission is fine, throw out bearing/pilot bearing are fine. Shifting was fine (when off) and no gears were disengaging. By this time i'm so pissed and frustrated.

Well i decided to go to another mechanic. I drove it there using my clutch start cancel button, my starter, and throwing it in gears while not stopping at any stop lights... don't ask me how i didn't get pulled over.

I go there and the guy goes... you done all that? What about your bracket. To my amazement he was right. I guess over time (he's seen them a lot) the bracket pedals start to stretch and become very weak. So everytime i pushed the pedal in i was actually just pushing the top bracket off of the fire wall... like a sea-saw. So after a special 240 dollar new bracket assembly i got it fixed.

Honestly... that was one where i'm like... really?

Anyway glad its working again lol.

 

damn haha you went through all that.....

but I will check that bracket anyway because something is starting to squeak somewhere in the clutch pedal area. i really hope is not the new master cylinder. I'm hoping is the clutch pedal pin that needs wd-40

 

Good luck to you sinful. Lol yes I was very very... well i should have gone to anger management. Lol.

 

besides the bracket the short piece of flex line on the pass side can get old and bulge under pressure. fyi

 

I had the same problem with the pedal bracket. Biggest PITA ever, changing it in the rain makes it even more fun, lmao.

 

they are to cheap at autozone and oreillys to be trying to rebuild one