My clutch went out a week ago and I've been working on it ever since. When the clutch pedal is depressed, does the slave cylinder pin push the clutch arm back or does it allow the pin to be pushed in by the clutch arm? Any fiero mechanics in the east texas area??? Would rather pay to have someone fix for me. I'm not too good with drive-train. Thanks for all your help.

This is mostly to keep the topic near the top.

If someone else doesn't help before morning, I'll check my manual and take a look at my car in the daylight, to try & help you out. I'll be doing some slave cyl work myself soon.

You're only about 130 miles from me. We should meet up sometime.

The pin pushes the clutch arm.

Thanks,

If the clutch arm is pushed by the cylinder then my clutch is really fubar. The clutch arm on mine is all the way down and I can't push or pull it. Somethin must be jammed in the tranny. That means motor drop time. Not lookin forward to that. Thanks for the help again, though.

The hydrolic pressure that the slave cylinder uses is really high. I couldn't move the clutch arm by myself either. It might be that their is air in the line or, if the clutch arm moves, but not fully, it could be a bent pedal.

If this is what your talking about, I wasn't too clear.

Have someone depress the clutch and measure the amount of travel at the slave rod(7/8 to 1 inch if working proper).

What was the clutch doing before the problem?
Noise when depressed? Not engaging? Not releasing?

OK, here's what happened. I went out to crank my car. The clutch pedal wouldn't go all the way to the floor but almost. I cranked it and the pedal went straight to the floor. A few seconds later, I heard a loud squealing noise from behind, so I killed it immediately. I let up on the clutch and it would not go back down. I bled the lines and know the pedal will go down but when I try to crank the motor, it sounds like it does when the battery is dead. It's not the clutch switch! It sound like it tries but something is keeping it from turning over. I took the slave cylinder off to look at the clutch arm and found that the arm was pushed back. the slave cylinder pin was fully extended and just barely touching the clutch arm. Sorry for not saying all this before but I'm just frustrated. Thanks for all the help. I'm thinking the fork arm came loose and is jammed in clutch or throw out bearing is jammed in clutch. Any other info would be greatly appreciated.

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Sounds like you could have a broken clutch fork where the clutch arm pushes on the throwout bearing. If it was my car I'd take a look at it.
I had a similar problem once, but was able to limp home (bad idea that was!). When I finally decided to bite the bullet and take a look at the clutch, I found major problems! The throwout (T/O) bearing began to machine into the transaxle where it slides on it. And, the T/O bearing had machined the pressure plate too. To fix the car I ended up replacing the complete transaxle, and clutch. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't driven it home. Anyway, take it apart to be sure, or you could really do some damage. Good luck.
Scott

Sounds like you have it right 87. A new clutch assemby and throw out bearing should fix you up!