Just to prefrace a bit, I'm in high school, and currently trying to get my dads old 1987 ranger 4x4 V6 back up and moving again. He let it sit for 4-5 years, so as yo can imagine, theres just tons of rust everywhere, but the frame seems to still be fairly intact, but there is a bit of rot on the body. So I figure I can have the truck going good by the time I get my license.

Well anyways, turned out that my neighbor has a full car lift in his garage, and we got the truck up there, and have been working on it for a few days. Originally we thought it just needed a new clutch, but today we got the tranny off, not ONLY does it need a new clutch, but the input shaft on the transmission got a bit of surface rust on it, which cause the slave cylinder to lock up, melt part of its bearing ,which is the reason why the clutch burnt out. So thats another $100 for the slave cylinder, and its gonna be a ton of work to get the old one out, bah.

sorry guys, just venting.