After a very streched-out process (about a year), I have swapped engines in my 87 Dodge...

but: my slave cylinder keeps going out....looking, it is obvious now that it is at the wrong angle to the fork!

I might have accidently mixed up the brackets, but I've lost the darn thing! Is there a different bracket for the 84 as opposed to the 87?

I have tried to search the Forum, but this, too, is draining my life-forces away...Can someone point me to some help?

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1987 Dodge Ram 100 Custom
Slant 6
833

...gonna keep this one...

UPDATE:

The '84 D100 uses the z-bar; thus, no cylinder bracket. (Paint me embarrassed.)

The clutch on the '87 D100 is (external to the bh) hydraulic with a bracket. The Chilton manual shows the bracket, but I am no closer to understanding why my slave cylinders sit at a wrong angle and keep failing...

I have GOT TO get this truck working this weekend...my groceries are just about out....

Should I try to modify the bracket, or is there some easy "wedge" kind of a fix?

Anyone?

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1987 Dodge Ram 100 Custom
Slant 6
833

...gonna keep this one...

You don't want to use the mech. linkage? Or you don't have it?

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70 Dart, 360, 727

The mechanical linkage from the 84 (clutch torsion bar/z-bar) will not go into my 87 without bodywork, so I cannot use it. I will have to stick with the hydraulic slave cylinder.

As I understand it, the late 87s had the cylinder mounted directly to the bell housing, whereas the early ones (like mine) had it attached to a bracket. My truck was built in January 1987.

Problem is, it sits on the bracket at the wrong angle to the clutch fork. I know someone else worked on this engine, and I suspect they put the wrong bracket back into it during the last overhaul.

Which brings me back to my origional problem:

How best to change the angle that the slave cylinder rod meets the clutch fork?

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1987 Dodge Ram 100 Custom
Slant 6
833

...gonna keep this one...