One of the difficulties he ran across in bleeding the system might come from mounting the mastercylinder on its side. The air bubbles will stay at the top and not get to the fittings and flow out to the bleeder on the slave.Although the truck slave mounted to the block there are 2 bosses on the block fairly close to the same location. A simple bracket could be made to mount a truck slave if you want it to push.
A truck bellhousing is about 3/4" deeper than a car and that will cause problems with the input shaft length unless you use a 94 or later T-5

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

The truck slave mounts to the truck bellhousing not the block.


Lawrenceville, GA

Just a heads up.  I got a Ford truck (1960?) slave that bolts right to the block.  Down side is my clutch m/c is 3/4" bore, the truck slave is 1".  This is a y-block in a Model A and the pedal ass'y is from ECI in Conn.  His m/c has horizontal bolt pattern, most others are a vert. pattern.  There may be enough meat to redrill, but I'm going to try this set up first to see if the arm will move enough.  Would be nice to have the lesser pedal pressure with an 11" clutch.

RB

Thanks from me also. Good photos, part numbers and parts sources go a long way to making this job easier.

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Thanks CT, I'll check this all out.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

I ended up buying a setup from this guy. He makes the brackets to fit several different trans. He sells them and also the slave cylinder so I got both from him. Back then they were $110 for the bracket and slave and pretty much a bolt on for my tko trans.



http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/backdraft-racing/92150-new-slave-cylinder-bracket-bdr-spf.html



I remember the bellhousing being used made a difference to, some aftermarkets got in the way. Factory aluminum worked and I know quicktime bellhousings worked great to.



I am using a wilwood master (remote reservoir type), 3/4 bore. You can either buy the expensive Wilwood reservoir or get a $2 like I did from a scrap yard. I used a clutch reservoir from 1993 - 1994 Ford Ranger Clutch Master Cylinder for V6-245ci 4.0L. Basically just went looking under hoods until I saw a small reservoir I wanted. You can see the small reservoir mounted to the firewall







Then I used the above slave and bracket.



I am using a longacre hyd. clutch line kit, this one exactly http://www.summitracing.com/parts/lng-28050



The fun part was bleeding it. Man that was something else.



I have not talked to the bracket guy since 2010, not sure if he still does them or not.



So in a nutshell I bought the bracket/slave cyl from Bill, got a longacre line kit, a junkyard fluid reservoir (small one) and a Wilwood master cyl.



Drilled a hole in the firewall and mounted the master where I had room. Easiest way to attach to clutch pedal seemed to be by the picture below. Will clean this up, it was a prototype that has worked well, and not visible to anyone anyway.











Mounted the small reservoir to the firewall and added a hose barb fitting to it for the rubber line.



Installed the bracket, mounted the slave cylinder, adjusted the slave with the trans fork per the instructions, started the bleeding process. it took a while to figure out the adjustment on the fork, and the bleeding process. Finally got it figured out, works great!



As for the slave cyl, the part # for it is a Wagner F124279. it fits a number of 90's Isuzu pickups. So if you have to make your own bracket for your application, you could try getting one of these slaves and determine a bracket design that would mount it correctly to operate the clutch fork.



If your going to run a T5, have a look at these for setups and brackets



http://home.bresnan.net/~dazed/test#3



http://www.rosehillperformanceparts.com/Products_Page.htm#:-CNC 305 Push Style Slave Cylinder:-



http://midnightdsigns.com/Mustang/HYD%20Clutch.htm

Thanks for the post. I for one would like to know all about it. What M/C and slave cylinder did you use?

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

Hey all, kinda funny I ran across this. This picture is mine, how I mounted mine in my 56. I dont have a y-block, but I was out here searching for power steering using the granada stuff and ran across this thread. I am running a 347 stroker in mine (302 block) and a tko 600 trans, basically the same as a tremec 3550 but beefier. I dont know if its of interest to you since we are using different engines and trans, but if so I can tell yall what I did.

Thanks Rono, I thought about that and remembered you said it was not a y-block.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

My friend Paul said that the clutch fork on his set-up is the stock length. It was not cut shoter. Probably just a different shape than the Y Block clutch forks.

Rono

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID