1996 Nissan Maxima, CLUTCH PROBLEMS

[JavaKitti]

About a month ago my clutch started popping out. It had no pressure and I couldn't change gears. My husband and his friend filled the fluid and bled the slave cylinder of air. It has been fine until today. I went to back out of my driveway and it was doing the same thing again. Does this mean I have a hole in the line? Or could I need a new slave cylinder? If that is the case, how do I find out? On Thursday when I was driving home from work I noticed a odor in my car that smelled like radiator fluid.

If I have to replace the slave cylinder how much would that run me? And does it take along time to do? I'm supposed to be at work at 8 in the morning and without my car, that's going to be hard to do.

Thanks for any help you can give.

1996 Nissan Maxima SE

[JavaKitti]

Okay, we just checked the fluid and it wasn't empty nor did it look like it was down at all. We tried to bleed the air and then build up pressure, but it wasn't building pressure at all. Could it be the pressure plate?

[NISTECH]

if the pedal is sticking on the floor I would say its your master cyl. look up under the dash where the clutch master push rod comes through. see if there is fluid in that area.

[UncleBen]

If it sticks to the floor, couldnt the slave also be messed up?

[NISTECH]

yes but by the concern she is talking about it may just be a bad master. and it may not be leaking just bypassing fluid internally since there is no fluid loss.

[JavaKitti]

I just got my car back from the shop. Thanks for answering my questions. It was both the slave & master cylinder that were bad. The mechanic who worked on it said the guy at Advance Auto sold my husband the wrong fluid and it caused them to swell up and crack. I called Advance back to let them know their book was wrong and the guy wasn't very nice to me.

Now my car is idling high though, and it never did that before.

[JavaKitti]

The manager for Advane is paying for 1/2 of the repair bill to my car. I call that GREAT customer service.:ylsuper

[Altiman94]

that is a good deal. My AA cltuch went out, maybe they will pay for that since it didnt even have 1k miles on it though, haha yeah right.

[574-240sx]

that is a good deal. My AA cltuch went out, maybe they will pay for that since it didnt even have 1k miles on it though, haha yeah right.

They should warantee the clutch still if they have your name on file or you have a recipt. I went through 3 clutch disc doing my auto to manual swap. Turns out I just had a bad master cylinder and need to adjust the clutch bad. I had a friend that used the wrong fluid in my civic a while back and the same thing happened. Nick