clutch is messed up????

[91f-bird]

ok this story is very wierd and has me stumped.....i have a 95 ranger XLT 4 cyl 5spd ..the thing runs great until......the thing runs fine for about 35-45 minutes..shifts fine and all...then the clutch pedal starts to get hard and u cannot get it to pop into gear..seems as its in neutral and wont go anywhere...then if u let it cool down it runs fine again for an amount of time...fluid level is fine what are my possibilities of problems here? thank you for any info!

[Mark E M]

Question... Is it the clutch pedel that gets too hard to push in??? or does the trans not want to shift, as in the gear shift will not pull into gear??? Later Mark

[heatond]

I might be having a similar problem with my truck. After having driven a while it seems when I come to a stop and put the truck into nuetral and then go to put it back into first, engaging the clutch all the way, it doesn't want to go into gear. Sometimes it doesn't want to get out of first gear either. If I wait with the clutch in it usually will then allow me to shift into or out of gear.
Any suggestions what the problem might be?
I've had replaced a short time ago: Pressure Plate, Release Bearing, Pilot Bearing, Clutch Disc, Rebuilt Flywheel, Slave Cylinder, and Shift Rail Plugs. So I don't know what it is now.

[Mark E M]

heatond, sounds like your pressure plate has a bad or broken spring in it, causing the clutch to stay partly inguaged. Hope this helps, Mark.

[cookies14]

i had that same problem and i had to get a new clutch