Clutch Issues? Need Help?

[GuestyR33]

hey peoples

ok so my r33 gtst is causing me nothing but grief atm

this is the story so far.

My gearstick started getting REALLY stiff, became extremely difficult to force it into gear and quickly became impossible.

my clutch pedal was quickly becoming weak and had no tension or response to it

you put your foot down on the clutch pedal, let it go and the thing pretty well, stays on the floor.

this is wat i've done so far to try and overcome the situation.

1. first i drained and replaced all the gearbox oil.

2. replaced my slave cylinder with a brand new one from nissan

3. bleed my clutch cylinders, got pretty much all of the air out of the system

problem is, none of this has helped. i still have no pressure on the pedal.

i've scouted for any leaks in the master and slave cylinder lines.

cannot find any. if i dont touch the car for a couple days the clutch fluids remain the same

so i assume they're not leaking.

my only other thoughts as to the problem are:

1. the master cylinder is faulty which i doubt

or

2. The Clutch Pivot bolt on the clutch fork is snapped.

My question is... Does anybody know the problem? has anyone experienced this and fixed it?

is there anyone around the eastern suburbs of melbourne who could come look at it for me?

please help, i'm stumped atm and i'm sick of driving my work car on the weekends lol

thanks,

Guesty

Edited September 29, 2007 by GuestyR33

[GuestyR33]

anyone had this problem?

[turboedsloth]

see if you can look into the bellhousing through the hole in the side an try an see if the pivot is broken. why did you only replace the slave cylinder an not both at the same time?

[Simon-S14]

first of all get a mate to push the clutch in for you and you look under the car and watch what the clutch slave does, it should push the rod and the fork in. if there is no movement here at all then all your clutch problems are hydraulic and most likely to be the master cyln.

if tghe fork is moving, and all the way in, then you have a mechanical issue with the fork or similar

[GuestyR33]

ok so i have finally discovered the cause to all my problems.

when i replaced the master cylinder it allowed me to build pressure in the pedal after bleeding.

therefore my master was stuffed. only thing was, this didn't fix the main problem. i still couldn't put

the gearstick into gear. i checked my pivot bolt, it was obviously fine. a couple of stressful hours passed

then i went back and tried again. i found the source of the problem, my "clutch pedal bracket" had snapped.

quite severely. i've since bought a nismo reinforced pedal bracket and hope to fit it in a couple days.

hopefully that is all thats wrong lol.

[Simon-S14]

ahh, quite common issue there too, all the spot welds sheer away, I had it happen to me, i pulled it out, rewelded it and put some extra steel in there also.