1stxj

so i had posted about my clutch problem and had a lot of help from the people that replied. i removed my clutch slave cylinder and found that the clutch fork has absolutly no pressure and can be moved around with little effort. so i will now be replacing the clutch and any other bad parts. i have replaced 2 clutches before but they were in a civic... i have an air compressor, tools, but unfortunately i will be doing this in my yard by myself. so im curious of how long you guys think it will take as i will have to take some time off from work to do this. thanks for all the help and sorry for the long post

HeepJeeper

not positive myself but curious to figure out, i have only done them in civics and that seemed easy so....

truckntractorhick

do ya have a repair manual?

Hommersimpson

In all honesty by yourself is going to hurt... lol... hope you have a good tranny jack...or pull transfercase then trans... good luck but should not take you more then a day.. at most... some help puting in would be nice tho....
have fun

MaGicMAN

Yea your gonna need help. I did the clutch in my jeep last month.. tranny and transfer case prolly weigh more than 250 lbs.

1stxj

i do have a haynes manual...my manager at work said he would let me use his aaa to have it towed to work so i can work on it there. that will make it a lot easier as he have everything we need

Willys55

book time in my shop is 5 hours, so if you take your time and follow the manual you should have it done in a day. Go for it , it's fun, great that you can do it at work instead of the driveway.

freegdr

when you remove the slave cyl the fork will have play the rod is what keeps pressure on it if i understand what you mean unless youve done clutchs before 2 people a must easiest way is to get tyrans and transfer centered and balanced as best you can with truck high enough and ratchet strap it to jack you dont need to take out from under xj just slide back far enough to replace parts its a lot of work make sure you need to remove it

1stxj

my fork moves in all directions...up, down, forward, backward, side to side, pretty much any direction. i know in my honda i couldn't do that. also i was told i should get my flywheel resurfaced or i will get a chatter when taking off...is this true?

freegdr

you should be able to move it forward and back that would be the same way that it would be working when you push your clutch pedal in and out can you see in where the arm sticks out to see if it has came off the throw out bearing its really hard to diag a problem when i cant see it you no

freegdr

im 49 ive put in plenty off clutches from tractor trailers to motorcycles if you can get the flywheel resurfaced in the same day as not to tie up the vechicle for dats waiting for it it would be advisable but iff you had no chatter and fly wheel has no hot spots or hair line cracks ive had no chatter after putting in new clutches but its not a given you wont

1stxj

Thanks for all the info its been a lot of help

OverlandZJ

Sounds like you lost the retaining spring for the fork. Might want to order one and have it with the rest of the new parts.

If your doing this alone it wont be a one day job unless you have a lift/air and a transjack.

Do yourself a favor and remove the transfercase, then you can handle the trans. I'v done this myself in my younger days..