'85 SR5 Extra Cab
22RE w/5Speed 2WDAbout 2 weeks ago I started having clutch problems. (Actually the clutch started to chatter upon takeoff in 1st last summer but didn't get any worse so I just kept on driving it) The problem lately has been that it's starting to slip in 4th gear when trying to get up to freeway speed. I haven't felt/heard it slip in any of the other gears yet. Yesterday I went to start it up and I don't have any clutch at all. The pedal goes to the floor with just one finger pressure. I got under it and watched while my wife pressed the pedal and it looks to me like the rod that comes out of the slave cylinder only pushes the clutch arm back about an eighth of an inch. How far is that pushrod supposed to travel? It appears to me that maybe either my clutch master cylinder or slave cylinder is shot. Or maybe that's all the further that the pushrod is supposed to travel. I suppose that it's just coincidence that it just started to slip recently and the release system failure or could these problems be related? Next question: Does the clutch master cylinder take any special fluid or does it use brake fluid? Any info will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jerry
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