Master back in the truck. Bled it every conceivable way. Gravity, vacuum, forward, backward and upside down. I can get it to disengage the clutch once when I start it. It will go into gear if I keep clutch pedal in after I start. Put shifter in neutral and let off clutch, push it back in and it’s gone. I’m not leaking any fluid so I can’t figure out where the failure is.
I have now removed the transmission and it’s on a dolly in the middle of the barn. Pulled off the slave, it looks old. Says FoMoCo and USA.
does this mean it’s factree? New slave and master are on order so I hope to be reassembling later this week.
Spent a little time tinkering with small issues. When you turn the key to acc the dome and dash lights come on.
I don’t think it’s supposed to work that way. With key off, opening a door won’t turn the dome light on.
No tail lights, emergency flashers work but turn signals don’t. Crazy stuff happens when people do their own installs. It’s easy to believe anybody would have enough common sense to do simple things like change a light bulb or use the same power source for their new radio as the old one used. Apparently I over estimate people’s intelligence. So the radio (not original) used the same power wires as the original however, they used all of them. Always powered ( for clock and memory), acc power and dash light power all twisted together for power source to radio. That’s why dash and dome lights come on when you turn key to acc. Got that mess all sorted. Then found turn signal, brake light tail light bulb(1157) in the right tail light was installed backwards. It’s not supposed to even fit in the socket that way but there it was. It was allowing power to draw from the wrong source bypassing the flasher. That and some wires crushed and melted under the rear bumper mount bracket was the cause for the lighting issues. Some one removed half the fuses most likely because they ran out after continued blowing. Got that mess all sorted and now have functioning lighting with the exception of no dash lights and no dome light with headlight switch. I have all the other exterior light so I believe the trouble is in the headlight switch itself. I will swap it out with a spare to confirm.
Spent some time getting the rear axle u bolt brackets turned to the correct orientation. Again common sense has left the job sight. Trimmed the u bolts enough to get a deep well socket on them. Got the bolts off and spun the plated 90 degrees. Whoever did this had to splay the bolts to fit in the bracket. You would think that would be a clue but
never mind