All the bronco II's I had over the years with a manual tranny I never had the pleasure of having to bleed one. Must have been lucky I guess.

I put a manual in a 89, swapped it to get rid of the A4LD. I had to put in all the clutch stuff and the guy at the yard I bought all the parts from broke the line and the pedal to master cylinder rod was missing. Anyway I had to buy a new master cylinder to get that rod. Used the stock metal 7/8" bore cylinder instead of the cheap all plastic, made in Mexico 1/2" bore cylinder that came with the rod.

I see Ford's engineers in a brain dead moment decided to make the line drop down on the outside of the frame first, then up and over the top of it and then drop down again on the inside of the frame and then straight over to the slave cylinder.

Now how in the heck did they expect anyone to get the air out of that loop over top the frame? Nothing but a big air trap, the line is to fragile to bend around in that small space to allow the air to rise without snapping it, another 47 bucks if you do.....

My boy and I have gravity bleed, vac bleed and pedal pump bleed 2 quarts of fluid through it now and I'll bet it still has a little bit of air in the system. We have it working now, full travel, but I'd love to hear how everyone else has been doing it.

Had I known putting in all "dry" parts and bleeding it later would have been such a pain I would have assembled the system and bleed it all before ever installing the slave in the tranny. The quick cupler wouldn't have lost any fluid or allowed any air in. The line must be connected to the master first to put it in anyway, another "brilliant" idea.......

Anyway just wanted to rant a minute, and if anyone does the same do yourself a favor, connect the line to the slave and master and bleed the complete system before putting all the parts in place in the vehicle's trans and body.

 

Yeah, it's a pain all right. I ended up bleeding it like brakes and that only took an hour or so.