Well, my clutch started slipping a few weeks ago in my 93 Maxima SE, and a pretty bad smell came up. After a few days, it just died, and would just rev in any gear. I had it towed to the shop, and they replaced the clutch. Well, I got it back, drove it for 1 hour only changing gears maybe 10 times, and it died again. They've been looking at it every since (over a week), replaced the clutch again, and now they've told me that they're stumped. They've replaced everything that has to do with the clutch, machined the flywheel, etc. They are now talking to Nissan directly to try to find out the problem. I'm not paying for any of this, so I just want it fixed properly, but does anyone have any ideas? I'm not sure, but both times this happened, it didn't begin to do it until I got it going over about 90mph or so. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

It sounds to me you are not taking care in breaking in your new clutch properly. 90mph? What are you doing that for? You are suppose to accelerate slowly and smoothly for the first 500 miles or so. This may not be the problem but going 90mph on a brand new clutch is just a BIG no, no! Make sure you don't tell the shop that is working on your clutch that you did this because they will get real ****ed{Probabaly} and may charge you. Anways best of luck with your max.

 

emax is right, your not even supposed to take it above 55mph (from what I heard) for first couple hundred miles or so.......

-Nate

 

I was driving at around 70~75mph while the car was sparkling new last weekend!!

Should I be afraid?? I got over 1K miles on it now...

Green

 

I would not worry about going 70-75mph. The thing you are not supposed to do is apply a lot of HP to the Clutch, so you should just try to stay under 3.5K RPM's to play it safe. Basically just don't go flooring a new clutch around town and speeding assesively on the highway for atleast 500 miles.

 

No, no. I didn't floor it or anything, I was just driving it on the highway back from the shop. I know that's not the problem (breaking in the new clutch), because the shop replaced it a SECOND time, and he took it out himself and it did it again. Something else is causing something to heat up, which is causing the clutch to die. Nobody seems to know.

 

Bump

 

How many miles on the car? Sounds like it could be gearing-tranny related. Is it making any weird noises?

lime

 

It has about 130k miles on it. What was happening was that after maybe 10 minutes of driving, every time I shifted gears it would rev up to about 5k and then come back down, and it slowly had less and less power. It was as if I had it in 3rd instead of 1st. I could barely even make it up small slopes, and then it died. It just wouldn't move, it just revved up.

 

That sounds like tranny, but, maybe alternator/distributor/sparks. When was the last time it was tuned up?

 

Well, I just bought it when this happened. So I couldn't tell you when the last tune-up was. I'm not sure, but I believe for the warranty that came with the car, it had to have a tune-up when it was sold to be valid.

 

hmmm...you got it from a dealer? Idunno what THEY consider a tuneup, either. It could be a rotor/distributor car problem, I dunno. :\ Sounds like if it's not the cluth/flywheel and the tranny is okay, then it might be a power problem....

 

shot in the dark..
there might be a small chance the clutch (fork) is bent. after 130K who knows. so it's not engaging and disengaging correctly. even if you press down on the pedal it doesn't release the clutch all the way. this is if you get the burning smell the second time. also there might be a slight chance the clutch wasn't replaced properly...

Lime...on the VE engines (92-94SE)there are no dist cap or rotor. direct ign.

good luck

 

oops sorry...I'm used to old ghetto cars v_v