Internal or external slave cylinder that is the question

[jmderyke]

I'm hunting for a replacement ax5 and I can only find internal slave cylinder types on the bell housing, while my original is a external. I'm pretty sure i can just swap the bell housing right????

I wanted to know what my fellow comanche owners thought about a internal vs external slave cylinder.

My father thinks that the external is the way to go but I think thats because his internal took a crap a few years ago. haha any way the external is harder to bleed but easy to get to if i need to ever replace. what do you think?? :hmm:

[Eagle]

The external is easier to bleed and easier to replace. For once, listen to your father.

[Geonovast]

Keep the external setup.

 

You are right, the bellhousings will swap right over. However, you also need to change the bearing retainer, which is a direct swap as well.

 

Internal slaves are crap and never should have been used, IMO.

[WBKrazy]

:agree: external is the way to go!

[jmderyke]

Thanks guys Its good to be able to do some preplanning before starting a project. I'm glad i can swap the bell housings if I have to. :cheers:

[comanche09]

The external slave hydraulics on the 95 AX-15 (not sure of other years) is all plastic and available has a complete unit, pre bled and ready to install. As far as I know, only available at the dealer like that for around $120.

 

Anyone know of a cheaper source for a complete setup?

[JeepcoMJ]

The external slave hydraulics on the 95 AX-15 (not sure of other years) is all plastic and available has a complete unit, pre bled and ready to install. As far as I know, only available at the dealer like that for around $120.

 

Anyone know of a cheaper source for a complete setup?

 

 

ax15 doesn't bolt in behind a 4 cylinder without an extremely rare dodge dakota bellhousing.

 

 

you are looking for parts for an ax-5...and you can get the slave in metal. make sure you order for your year of truck, NOT the year of the trans, and swap the bellhousings if necessary.

 

 

as geonovast stated, you also have to swap the bearing retainer/front cover of the trans to make this work.

[comanche09]

The external slave hydraulics on the 95 AX-15 (not sure of other years) is all plastic and available has a complete unit, pre bled and ready to install. As far as I know, only available at the dealer like that for around $120.

 

Anyone know of a cheaper source for a complete setup?

 

 

ax15 doesn't bolt in behind a 4 cylinder without an extremely rare dodge dakota bellhousing.

 

 

you are looking for parts for an ax-5...and you can get the slave in metal. make sure you order for your year of truck, NOT the year of the trans, and swap the bellhousings if necessary.

 

 

as geonovast stated, you also have to swap the bearing retainer/front cover of the trans to make this work.

 

Yeah, I know he is asking about an AX-5... For the sake of starting yet another thread on the topic, I thought I would ask my question here based on the non-specific thread title, to help those who may be searching for information regarding same in the future.

 

jmderyke, apologies for my slight thread hijack. :cheers: