So who here has the highest mileage Maxima with a factory clutch?
04-18-2008, 07:20 PM
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So who here has the highest mileage Maxima with a factory clutch?
I know mine is pretty impressive... 165K and still going strong... Dry T/O bearing makes a little squeaky sound when not engaged but you got to hear for it... Other then that... Still going good... How about you?
04-18-2008, 10:53 PM
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137k and slipped once when I pinned it a couple of months ago so I got scared and bought an exeddy off of Ebay and it hasent slipped since. So i have a full clutch kit sitting in my room just begging for my car to use it.
04-19-2008, 01:19 PM
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Not really its just seeing how good the factory clutches are in these cars. I have seen cars like most american cars go 50-80k... Mostly due to bad driving but when I see clutches go before 80k it is either u suck at driving, ur clutch sucks, Or u race and burn out way to much.
04-20-2008, 08:58 AM
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Second of all if you see someone get 200k+ and you had to replace yours after 50k, then you know you're doing something wrong
With that being said, I wish I had a clutch (pedal)
04-20-2008, 07:40 PM
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Not really its just seeing how good the factory clutches are in these cars. I have seen cars like most american cars go 50-80k... Mostly due to bad driving but when I see clutches go before 80k it is either u suck at driving, ur clutch sucks, Or u race and burn out way to much.
On a side note, if your partly getting at the fact at how well the clutch is, i'll fully agree with you on that its awesome for the lifetime.
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04-21-2008, 09:15 AM
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Clutches really depend on how theyve been treated. The OEM clutch i had in the car was driven fairly nicely till about 150K Miles then the last 25K miles it got driven HARD. I use to beat the **** out of the car day in and day out, and the clutch still had a fair amount of life.
And for american cars, my beater 99 ranger with 153K miles is still on the original clutch, and the guy who had it before use to tow his boat up in the mountain areas all the time. Also those rangers are known to have weak clutches, so really it depends on how its driven.
Ive seen the same 04 maxima 6spd come into my shop 4 times for a toasted clutch and last time it was here it only had 36K miles. The women could not take off without riding the hell out of the clutch. oddly enough she complains that nissan makes crappy unreliable cars, when realisitically no cars clutch likes to be slowly ridden out at 3000rpm every time you take off.
Also to the OP.
If im not sure if i read your post correctly but noise when your foot is OFF the clutch pedal is not T/O bearing, it is the input shaft bearing. The T/O bearing is only engaged when your foot is pressed down on the clutch pedal. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a very common misconception, when your foot is off the clutch, the clutch is engaged, therefore your input shaft and input shaft bearing is spinning, this is possible when you are in gear and in neutral. Now the T/O bearing is attatched to the clutch fork, this bearing is only engaged and in movement when your foot is pressed onto the clutch pedal. Therefore when your foot is down the clutch is disengaged, and when your foot is off the clutch is engaged. I actually fell into this misconception, untill i really thought about it.
And for american cars, my beater 99 ranger with 153K miles is still on the original clutch, and the guy who had it before use to tow his boat up in the mountain areas all the time. Also those rangers are known to have weak clutches, so really it depends on how its driven.
Ive seen the same 04 maxima 6spd come into my shop 4 times for a toasted clutch and last time it was here it only had 36K miles. The women could not take off without riding the hell out of the clutch. oddly enough she complains that nissan makes crappy unreliable cars, when realisitically no cars clutch likes to be slowly ridden out at 3000rpm every time you take off.
Also to the OP.
If im not sure if i read your post correctly but noise when your foot is OFF the clutch pedal is not T/O bearing, it is the input shaft bearing. The T/O bearing is only engaged when your foot is pressed down on the clutch pedal. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a very common misconception, when your foot is off the clutch, the clutch is engaged, therefore your input shaft and input shaft bearing is spinning, this is possible when you are in gear and in neutral. Now the T/O bearing is attatched to the clutch fork, this bearing is only engaged and in movement when your foot is pressed onto the clutch pedal. Therefore when your foot is down the clutch is disengaged, and when your foot is off the clutch is engaged. I actually fell into this misconception, untill i really thought about it.
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04-21-2008, 11:48 PM
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Clutches really depend on how theyve been treated. The OEM clutch i had in the car was driven fairly nicely till about 150K Miles then the last 25K miles it got driven HARD. I use to beat the **** out of the car day in and day out, and the clutch still had a fair amount of life.
And for american cars, my beater 99 ranger with 153K miles is still on the original clutch, and the guy who had it before use to tow his boat up in the mountain areas all the time. Also those rangers are known to have weak clutches, so really it depends on how its driven.
Ive seen the same 04 maxima 6spd come into my shop 4 times for a toasted clutch and last time it was here it only had 36K miles. The women could not take off without riding the hell out of the clutch. oddly enough she complains that nissan makes crappy unreliable cars, when realisitically no cars clutch likes to be slowly ridden out at 3000rpm every time you take off.
Also to the OP.
If im not sure if i read your post correctly but noise when your foot is OFF the clutch pedal is not T/O bearing, it is the input shaft bearing. The T/O bearing is only engaged when your foot is pressed down on the clutch pedal. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a very common misconception, when your foot is off the clutch, the clutch is engaged, therefore your input shaft and input shaft bearing is spinning, this is possible when you are in gear and in neutral. Now the T/O bearing is attatched to the clutch fork, this bearing is only engaged and in movement when your foot is pressed onto the clutch pedal. Therefore when your foot is down the clutch is disengaged, and when your foot is off the clutch is engaged. I actually fell into this misconception, untill i really thought about it.
And for american cars, my beater 99 ranger with 153K miles is still on the original clutch, and the guy who had it before use to tow his boat up in the mountain areas all the time. Also those rangers are known to have weak clutches, so really it depends on how its driven.
Ive seen the same 04 maxima 6spd come into my shop 4 times for a toasted clutch and last time it was here it only had 36K miles. The women could not take off without riding the hell out of the clutch. oddly enough she complains that nissan makes crappy unreliable cars, when realisitically no cars clutch likes to be slowly ridden out at 3000rpm every time you take off.
Also to the OP.
If im not sure if i read your post correctly but noise when your foot is OFF the clutch pedal is not T/O bearing, it is the input shaft bearing. The T/O bearing is only engaged when your foot is pressed down on the clutch pedal. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a very common misconception, when your foot is off the clutch, the clutch is engaged, therefore your input shaft and input shaft bearing is spinning, this is possible when you are in gear and in neutral. Now the T/O bearing is attatched to the clutch fork, this bearing is only engaged and in movement when your foot is pressed onto the clutch pedal. Therefore when your foot is down the clutch is disengaged, and when your foot is off the clutch is engaged. I actually fell into this misconception, untill i really thought about it.
u sir are correct... I totally forgot about that, I knew it was the input shaft bearing then when I made this post I somehow thought it was the TO bearing... It is actually the Dry input bearing making the sound, and obv when the clutch is pushed in, the sound goes away.
04-23-2008, 08:27 AM
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But, as you alluded to after doing my replacement and seeing it first hand, mine failed (at a little over 190K) not by running out of clutch material, but by the center section metal fatiguing. If you use your clutch for many years (in my case, 13 1/2) I don't think metal fatigue can be prevented.
So, just a word of warning to anyone still not getting any clutch slippage at high mileage - these things can catastrophically fail with very little notice. The day mine let loose, it chattered - for the first time ever - at 2 or 3 stop/starts before the center section broke completely free.
05-22-2008, 09:30 PM
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My dad said they replaced an 04' sentra clutch the other day....at 23K! The car wouldn't move, it was that bad. Apparently it wasn't a clutch defect or anything...the driver was just THAT bad.
10-21-2008, 09:16 PM
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Wow, I dont even care. I would not keep a clutch in my car that has over 100,000 miles or thats older than 6 years. You may not notice a difference until you put a brand new clutch in your baby. It's not that hard of a job, so its worth the effort.
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