So I'm not much of a mechanic but I can watch you tube extremely well. I have a 96 Ford f150 and it's the second clutch in a year going in it but before I start taking it out I looked in the inspection hole and the clutch doesn't seem to be self adjusting. It doesn't have the slots with the springs in it. So if it's a concentric clutch and slave and not a self adjusting clutch what do you do to get it adjusted or is it just the wrong clutch that got installed in the first place?

 

The self adjusting part is in the hydraulic system, the master and the slave cylinder, not the clutch disc or the pressure plate. I can't explain how the self adjusting part works but it does. Just so we know, what engine do you have?

 

4.9 but I'm just about to go out and start turning on it. I just don't see how it only lasted a year. Someone told me that it could have needed shimed because the flywheel was turned and removed however much that was from the clearance which makes sense but I'll measure it when I get it out I guess

 

I am GUESSING what has failed is just the slave cylinder. If everything was working okay for a while the clutch disc and pressure plate are probably okay if they weren't slipping and got burned or wore. It is not uncommon for poor quality slave cylinders to fail in short order. You can usually tell the wear condition of the disc by looking at it's thickness.

I hope you have access to a transmission jack. That transmission is heavy.

 

You still have to pull the whole thing all the way out for the slave or can you slide the tranny back and get it out

 

Well you can slide it back far enough so the input shaft of the transmission clears the slave cylinder, but by the time you do that you might as well just drop the transmission down unless you are using makeshift stuff to hold the transmission up. But I wouldn't try to do the job without a transmission jack.

I'm just curious do you have a 2 wheel drive or a 4 wheel drive that also requires removing the front driveshaft and the transfer case?

 

4 wheel drive and my buddy is a mechanic and he is gonna help me for trade work on his kitchen so it should work out ok. Hopefully. And thanks for your time and advice.