*sigh* Just watched my truck...

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

...roll away on a flat bed.  Today a few hundred feet after I pulled out of my driveway, my clutch pedal lost all pressure.  I pulled over, and noticed a puddle of hydraulic fluid on the road.  And I could see it dripping from the clutch housing.  So my truck is at the Ford dealer, being diagnosed.  Not a good way to start a Thursday.

[grampster]

Sigh....So this morning one of my staff asked me to go pick up a salesman at the local car dealer.  He had slid off the road and hit a curb.  When I got him, he was moaning about all the cost he might have to pay due to front end potentialities.
To make a long story short, I got a flat tire on the way back to the office.  My tires were about 70%  worn so had the wrecker haul me to the tire store.  MIght as well get the tires now rather than waiting a couple months....$475.00 later.....sigh.
The guy I picked up got a call...Just a tie rod and allignment.  $250.00

So for being a good samaritan I get to pay $225.00 more than him.  Sigh........

[Scout26]

No good deed goes unpunished......

[280plus]

There's a bright side, at least you didn't hit yourself in the face with a sledge hammer!

[grampster]

er...ahh...

[garrettwc]

dasmi, considering the other most likely reason for your vehicle to leave on a flat bed [major accident], your day might not be all that bad.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Nope, it'll turn out fine.  Probably under warranty, and if not, it's only money, right?

[grampster]

Dasmi,  See if they'll waranty my tahrs, too.  heh.

[USP45usp]

Look on the bright side.

You could have been many miles down the road, in an area that has bad or no cell service, the nearest pay phone has been run over and the locals are wondering if you're an undercover checking out their drug deals.

See, there is always a bright side to everything

Wayne

[Tallpine]

Dang ford clutches....

If it is like the p/u that my daughter has, you will have to pay to have the transmission (and txfer case if 4wd) removed and reinstalled because the slave cylinder is a donut around the input shaft.

We got lucky on hers though ... it was just a leaking o-ring that sucked air into the system

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Tallpine, you are correct.
$543 plus tax for parts and labor.  Not under warranty.

[280plus]

That ain't so bad. I just paid $680 for a fuel pump in my Acclaim.

Is this the same clutch that wouldn't return from the floor a couple weeks back?

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Yep, same one.

[Art Eatman]

Why did they start putting clutch slave cylinders inside the bell-housings?  Because they were having too many warranty comebacks.

Why were they having these comebacks?  Because the exhaust pipes were routed too close to the slave cylinders.

So instead of mounting the cylinder on the off side from the exhaust, or putting heat shields in place, the sleazy bastards figured a way for the dealer's shop to make a LOT more money.

Which is another reason I'm not gonna buy a new Toyota 4WD PU, and run my '85 through a body shop for a paint job and a new windshield.  New upholstery--well, seat-covers, anyway, in Mexico .  A front-end go-through and I'm golden for at least another 150K to 200K.

Heck, it's just broke-in good.  Only 288,000 miles on it.  And I got a low mileage spare engine and transmission for it.