Clutch Issues on Nismo

Apollo8642 · 11-26-2013, 12:47 PM

The stock CSC's are pretty much plastic, and known to failure but once that happens you're usually getting a towed home, at least that's all I've read. You can also get under your car open the inspection plate on the trans, and see if you have any oil in there from the CSC, and that would be a good indication of CSC starting to fail. This is just stuff I've read, so take it second hand.

What the problem might be, and this is what I ran into. I boiled my clutch fluid, and it did the same thing your talking about. I think it's cause the clutch line runs pretty close to the cat on the driver side. I had the clutch system flushed out really well, and had zero issues after that for the next month, then I swapped everything out cause I had jumped the gun thinking my CSC was toast, and ordered everything under the sun for the trans from ZSpeed Performance Oh yeah, and Nissan doesn't cover the CSC in their drivetrain warranty.

Chuck33079 · 11-26-2013, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Apollo8642

The stock CSC's are pretty much plastic, and known to failure but once that happens you're usually getting a towed home, at least that's all I've read. You can also get under your car open the inspection plate on the trans, and see if you have any oil in there from the CSC, and that would be a good indication of CSC starting to fail. This is just stuff I've read, so take it second hand.

What the problem might be, and this is what I ran into. I boiled my clutch fluid, and it did the same thing your talking about. I think it's cause the clutch line runs pretty close to the cat on the driver side. I had the clutch system flushed out really well, and had zero issues after that for the next month, then I swapped everything out cause I had jumped the gun thinking my CSC was toast, and ordered everything under the sun for the trans from ZSpeed Performance Oh yeah, and Nissan doesn't cover the CSC in their drivetrain warranty.

More than a few people have had it covered under warranty.

Apollo8642 · 11-26-2013, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck33079

More than a few people have had it covered under warranty.

Four of the Nissan dealships here all refused, and each said that the CSC is not covered under the draintrain warranty, and of course neither is the clutch. This happened in August, my Nismo is a 09, and at the time had 19K miles on when it happen, and no longer has the bump to bump coverage.

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11-26-2013, 12:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Apollo8642 Base Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 187 Drives: 09 370Z Nismo #280 Rep Power: 14	The stock CSC's are pretty much plastic, and known to failure but once that happens you're usually getting a towed home, at least that's all I've read. You can also get under your car open the inspection plate on the trans, and see if you have any oil in there from the CSC, and that would be a good indication of CSC starting to fail. This is just stuff I've read, so take it second hand. What the problem might be, and this is what I ran into. I boiled my clutch fluid, and it did the same thing your talking about. I think it's cause the clutch line runs pretty close to the cat on the driver side. I had the clutch system flushed out really well, and had zero issues after that for the next month, then I swapped everything out cause I had jumped the gun thinking my CSC was toast, and ordered everything under the sun for the trans from ZSpeed Performance Oh yeah, and Nissan doesn't cover the CSC in their drivetrain warranty.