Maintaining your Clutch Hydraulics
 

I have found this very helpful in my corvette, and it would have saved me the hydraulics in my F-body, had I known about it.

Is this applicable to the 370Z and its clutch operation?

Clutch Care

don't know if the same issue plagues the 370z but definitely some of the complaints about the z06 clutch like slow release, sticking to the floor, and going soft do occur on the 370z too.

It is not just corvette's, but F-bodies and other cars with the T56/tr6060. I wondered if the design was similar.

Aren't you guys doing this at least once every 2 years?

GM says you should, or every 50K miles. I don't know what Nissan says. I replace the clutch fluid in my reservoir every time I drive my Z06. That way it never has a chance to get dirty and cost me the time/money. 5 minutes per tank of gas I burn, basically, and my clutch fluid looks new.

The G is my daily driver. I'd go nuts if I serviced the clutch fluid that often. I figure once every 2 years is good enough. Never did it on my z28 as it required some strange procedure. You injected fluid in from the slave IIRC.

I change and bleed my clutch fluid annually. Exchanging the reservoir fluid every fill up is excessive and you may introduce more debris just by opening the reservoir so often (especially outside at a gas station).

I had a 2001 WS6, same transmission. If you did what I do on my 'vette it would be fine. My hydraulics went out at about 85K miles probably because I didn't. Fluid was black as pitch.

I do it in a closed garage with a syringe. It's a rather clean procedure when I do it. Overkill? Maybe, but for a $$$$ bill to to rip the transmission and rear-end out of my Z06 if the hydraulics go out, it's cake.

This is great info. I was always wondering what causes slow disengagement in a clutch.