sticking clutch???

by **sillygrrrl** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:39 pm

so, i'm @ a light waiting for the light to turn green. light turns green. i press in the clutch, shift into first, lift my foot up .. but the clutch doesn't come back up w. the foot. WTH???? so i shift into neutral to see if i can shift into 2nd so i can @ least pull over, but now i can't shift into ANY gear! the last thing i need is all of MoCo, MD mad at the stupid little asian girl who can't move her car outta the middle of a busy road. first i try 2nd gear - no go, so i try to shift back into 1st. even to get it into 1st was kind of a struggle. i finally manage to pull into a neighborhood & try pressing on the clutch again to see if i can get it to come back up, no luck. by this time the clutch is sticking to the floor & not coming up at ALL. i had to freakin pull the clutch up by hand!! funny thing is, after i physically pulled the clutch up, it started to work ok. the whole way home the car sounded like the clutch may not be disengaging all the way, but then again that could be me just being paranoid.

from what i'm hearding/reading - it could be either the master cylinder or the hyraulics(??). how can i tell whether it's one or the other? or both??

i did a search but didn't really find anything that could help me.

mannnn any help is appreciated guyss!!!! =(

by **1gSE** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:19 pm

hmm..i had that same problem with my old cavalier. It was my slave cylinder. I haven't really dug around the engine bay on the lara much, so i can't remember is there's a separate reservoir for fluid (brake fluid) or if it shares with the brakes system. Check to see if you're low. How many miles do you have on it? My cav had a slow leak starting around 80k (first sign of the slave cylinder dying) and eventually it took a sh*t. Cost me about 500 to replace (parts and labor), complete clutch kit

by **SolaraBlue** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:55 pm

^^ i agree, sounds like the slave cylinder.

same thing happened in my altima... and my brothers maxima... damn nissans! both cases it was the slave cylinder.
either way, good luck.

by **Jakecallun20** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:38 pm

in my friends maxima, the fluid reservoir is over in the upper right side, up behind to the right of the master cylinder. hope that helps.

by **Got2XLR8 NYX** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:45 pm

Wow this just happened to me today at the UCF parking lot! i was like WtF? so since i was wearing flip flops i just took my left flip flop off and tried grabbing the pedal with my toes as ghetto as it is it actually kinda works... gonna call up my mechanic and see how to go about fixing it...

by **facevedo17** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:01 pm

this happen to me aswell I was using the tip of my shoe to bring it back up I continued driving for a couple of days like that not knowing what the hell it was
till I was sitting in traffic one day it happen again then my gear wouldn't shift into any gear and the clutch stayed stuck inside luckilly I was still moving so I was able to get out the next exit and call a tow truck

at that point I replaced my stock clutch with an spec stage 2 and fidanza flywheel mechanic didn't mentioned if my stock clucth was still good just be careful and get it taken care of asap from the moment I got the first sign I'll say on the 3rd day I was fuckeddddd.... good luck

by **facevedo17** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:04 pm

Got2XLR8 NYX

Did this happen recently with ur spec clutch ?? are the signs of an aftermaket clutch the same as an stock ???

by **Jakecallun20** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:36 pm

Lol. from the way it sounds, the solara isn't a good 5 speed?

by **Got2XLR8 NYX** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:00 pm

facevedo17 wrote:Got2XLR8 NYX

Did this happen recently with ur spec clutch ?? are the signs of an aftermaket clutch the same as an stock ???

Yea this happened today with the spec stage 2 installed already i dont think that my clutch being aftermarket has any thing to do with the problem but i more or less think that it is a stock car part problem and not a aftermarket clutch (i hope) because i replaced my clutch because i burned through the stock one...

by **Got2XLR8 NYX** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:03 pm

Jakecallun20 wrote:Lol. from the way it sounds, the solara isn't a good 5 speed?

I think its a common manual transmission problem because i have a friend who has had this problem with his dad's SR5 Tundra (yes they do come manual) and his SR20 swapped 240SX so its not that the Solara is a bad Manual car its all manual cars have a chance of getting this problem...

by **indiglosolara** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:13 pm

slave cylinder is out

by **akora12** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:57 pm

What's everyone's mileage at the point their slave cylinder is going out? I had my clutch and flywheel replaced at around 80,000 miles when it went out, but the slave cylinder is still going. I'd like to maybe change this out before it goes bad just to save another tow truck fee. I'm at 108,xxx miles now...

by **Eye8Pussies** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:30 pm

has anybody ever tried an aftermarket slave cylinder?

after I did my swap (I went with a slave from NAPA) my clutch occasionally does this and it's really annoying. Sometimes it just kind of pops back up slowly as well.

I will be picking up an oem toyota one to slap on soon instead.

As well, does anybody know if an aftermarket Master Cylinder would also cause this? (I have on from napa as well)

by **facevedo17** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:25 pm

I dont think it matters I used an aftermarket slave and master since my problem not Toyota althought I did have to buy a part from toyota that ran me about 105 dollars I think I don't remember what it is call some sort of plate that the lines are connected to its small ??? no problems yet with the new clucth installed back in March ......

by **Eye8Pussies** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:18 pm

hmmm....I don't know...plenty of after market parts just aren't as good most of the time...and for something as important as these two components, I wouldn't have gone aftermarket if they didn't cost so much at the canadian dealership

and I also find it strange that it was a symptom of a dying clutch....since a dead clutch wouldn't do that....

but regardless, my clutch and flywheel are both new, and I've been having this problem since the very beginning, which was about 5-6K kms ago

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