He guys, I recently had my transmission rebuild and also installed a new clutch in my 1996 maxima. The clutch is a stage 3 XTD and it grabs great. Any way the issue with my clutch is that after bleeding , the clutch peddle feels fine and the clutch engages as soon as you let go off the peddle, which I like, but then after driving it around the city for about ten minutes (with just normal shifting), the point at which the clutch engages shifts slowly as I continue driving. The clutch peddle hardens and it gets to a point where the peddle play is gone. Now it gets so bad that I can literary just tap my peddle and change a gear. So basically the clutch engagement point changes from all the way to the bottom to all the way up which means not even any peddle play. (Mind you this is just 10 minutes of driving after bleeding it). Note this is not clutch adjustment issue (and believe me I’ve tried to and I did not help). Now it gets so worse that my new clutch starts slipping and then I have to do it all over again (bleeding). This means that the slave cylinder is pressing or pushing on the release lever (fork) causing the clutch to not fully engage even with my foot off the peddle. I did replace the slave cylinder (from AutoZone) which was actually leaking and also the hose that bolts directly to it (got it from the dealer) which was leaking also. The second part of the hose was not in a bad condition but its barely sweating. I don’t see any leaking clutch fluid and its level in the resover does not change at all. I am left confused and wondering what could be the problem since I don’t see any fluid leakage and am afraid if it keeps going like this its going to mess up my clutch again. I never had this problem before I replaced the clutch, and am thinking maybe I should replace the master cylinder too even though I don’t see it leaking (I might be wrong). Please if anybody can help me solve this I would greatly appreciate. All opinions welcome. Thank you guys.

 

bleed your buffer a few more times and adjust the pedal. for some odd reason sometimes there is air stuck in the buffer that will not leave and when you adjust the pedal a certain way it will go away. This happened to me. My pedal would be great for like 10mins then get floppy and soft as ****. It pissed me off and I bled it 4 times. Just bleed the buffer. You don't need to bleed the lower as much. Give it a shot and adjust the freeplay and get back to us.

 

i just bled it a couple o times but ance i start driving the clutch starts to harden so much and the engagement shifts from having the peddle down to all the way up with no more peddle play at all. i tried to adjust the freeplay but no luck. like i said u can almost tap the peddle to change the gears. but then as i drive some more the clutch starts to slip since the slve cylinder seems to be pushing on the release lever even after my foot is off the peddle. its very irritating.