How do you remove that plastic hose that goes through the transmission. Im ready to pull the 5spd in my 88 bronco and i dont know how to remove the hose so i can drop the trans. I dont want to take the whole master cyl off.

 

There is a plastic clip that holds the line to the slave cylinder. You have to reach inside the bellhousing to disconnect it, so you will have to at least slide the tranny back far enough to get a small screwdriver in there with your arm.

 

Ok. Ill work it out. When i disconnect it is it gonna leak fluid all over too

 

It wouldn't be any fun if it didn't.

 

Of course lol

 

No, none of that is correct. The slave cylinder has a spring loaded clip that can be pushed in (while pushing the line into the fitting hard) and then the line can be pulled off the slave cylinder. Google "Clutch line removal tool" to see one of these tools. Then get under your truck and look. You don't need to pull the transmission back just to disconnect the slave cylinder. Also only the fluid in the slave cylinder (not much) will leak out as the clutch line has a check valve on the end that blocks fluid when the line is removed from the slave.

Watch this video starting at 1:30.

 

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure the clip is right next to the slave cylinder. I thought I remember having to slide the tranny back to get to mine.

 

After i got it out there was a roll pin holding it in. I didnt see any clip. I pounded the pin out and with a little tug the line came off

 

No there is no clip right next to the slave cylinder. The clip is further out, so you don't have to pull the transmission back just to disconnect the line. That makes no sense. There is a roll pin right next to the slave that holds the hard line (which has the clip) but there is no reason to take that out. It comes with the new slave cylinder.

 

Well i gotta get a new slave cyl anyway but i took the pin out cause i couldnt figure out any other way to disconnect it.

 

Kawamatt2 was correct. Most have the steel fingers which are common in fuel lines holding it in. You need that tool that pushes in the outer sleeve to let those steel fingers release and the line is supposed to pop out, like the fuel lines, saving the leaking that would otherwise occur .... Those lines are almost 50 bux I believe, so it was worth it to me to do it right ...

 

Is it the same tool as the fuel line tool

 

fordka, your thread title is "Master cylinder line removal". You are correct about the pin that keeps the line on the master cylinder. When I replaced the slave cylinder on my truck. I had a heck of a time trying to get the QD mechanism to move. I eventually used the screw driver method to get the line separated from the slave. It wasn't until latter that I found out that I was not using the special tool correctly, lol. I was actually trying to push the entire tool toward the transmission as opposed to using it as a fulcrum that pushes the plastic sleeve inward to release connector.

As for your last question; no it isn't the same tool. But the locking concept is the same.

 

Ed:

I agree with most of what you indicated. However at the slave cylinder that approx 3" sleeve assembly is also affixed to the slave cylinder by a pin - that is what fordka referred to as dismantiling. When that is dismantled the fluid will drain, like he indicated. Otherwise I agree with the rest of what you indicated, went thru basically the same ordeal ....

 

Altho when i did get it apart none of the fluid drained haha. But i did manage to tip the trans upside down and spill trans fluid all over. That made uo for it.