How many of you have had this happen. Last Friday, I met my wife for lunch. I get about two blocks from the resturant and the clutch peddle drops to the floorboard. I'm thinking "Profanity Removed!", so I pull the peddle up with my foot and try pressing it down and it won't move. I get the truck into a parking lot and pop the hood. Master cylinder looks ok, stick my head under the truck and notice the hydralic line has come loose from the concentric slave cylindar (M5OD tranny). So, I catch a ride back to work, finish my day and go home. Sat. morning I put the line back into the slave and fill the master w/ fluid. Push the peddle up and down about ten times and crack open the bleeder and fluid slowly runs out. Start the truck and drive home, clutch working fine.
Just wait, it gets better. Today at lunch, try to shift into 3rd and the peddle drops to the floor again. I pull into another parking lot and try to pull the peddle up. It comes back up, so I try to push it down and the plastic bushing in the master cylindar pushrod falls out. I carefully put it all back together and go back to work. Call the local dealer and the parts guy tells me he has a box of those bushings on the shelve. I think I will buy two, just to be on the safe side.

This happen to anybody else?
I think the moral to this story is I have to stop going out to lunch.

Roger Lane
Test Analyst
Sr. Automated Test Engineer
IBP, Inc.

 

Never had my peddle go to the floor, but the plastic bushing go all the time. All the Ford Dealers have boxes full of them.The first time mine went I brought in bits & pieces of it & he knew what it was without having to tell him.

 

I just want to blow off a little steam about an otherwise excellent '95 F150: Here I live in the Motor City, the home of Ford Motor Company, and I had to call several dealers to find this stupid plastic bushing (some of them didn't even know what I was talking about). And then the dealer only had two of them. Four and a half bucks for about 1/2-cent worth of plastic. What an engineering SNAFU. Well at least it is easy to repair--unlike the near-worthless plastic concentric clutch slave cylinder that requires dropping the tranny to replace.

 

By the way, if anyone needs one of these bushings, the bag it comes in says:

ONE
E69Z-7526-A
BUSHING
S4 M84035

 

Since I now own one of these beasts, what is this plastic bushing, and where does it go?

Trail Rider

 

 

The bushing is on the right side of the pedal assembly. It holds the clutch master cylinder pushrod to a pin on the cross-shaft lever.

Rich