Hi all:
I had to remove the air intake assembly to get at my throttle body plate for cleaning so thought this might be a good time to flush the clutch fluid on my 95 Maxima. The car has two bleeders - one down by the manual transmission and the other by a strut tower on what they call the "clutch piping". My factory service manual specifies alternating between the two locations several times and using the standard technique of having an assistant pump the clutch pedal, hold, opening and closing the bleeder valve, and then repeating the cycle. However, after opening and closing the bleeders, the pedal would remain at the floor at would have to be manually pulled up for the next cycle. I thought perhaps this would improve after several cycles/iterations between the two locations, but it would always remain at the floor for the entire procedure - I alternated locations probably 5x and 2-3 cycles at each location during the procedure. I was looking at some Youtube videos (not for a Maxima) and one video said the pedal can remain at the car but should eventually return to the full up position at some point during the procedure when they say something about depressing the pedal 5x to "push out the concentric slave cylinder piston" which I didn't understand since the assistant would pump the pedal each time at least 3x unless we weren't pumping it enough. But other sites seem to indicate on some cars you will always have to manually pull the pedal back up. Does anyone know whether the pedal should return on its own for my car and what I might try to achieve that? My factory service manual says nothing about having to manually pull up on the pedal. I will note that during the bleeder open/close phase, I wasn't sure if it should be opened in just a short burst, or allowed to remain open for a few seconds.
pages CL4 and CL5 for those interested:
https://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/Maxima/1995/cl.pdf
I had to remove the air intake assembly to get at my throttle body plate for cleaning so thought this might be a good time to flush the clutch fluid on my 95 Maxima. The car has two bleeders - one down by the manual transmission and the other by a strut tower on what they call the "clutch piping". My factory service manual specifies alternating between the two locations several times and using the standard technique of having an assistant pump the clutch pedal, hold, opening and closing the bleeder valve, and then repeating the cycle. However, after opening and closing the bleeders, the pedal would remain at the floor at would have to be manually pulled up for the next cycle. I thought perhaps this would improve after several cycles/iterations between the two locations, but it would always remain at the floor for the entire procedure - I alternated locations probably 5x and 2-3 cycles at each location during the procedure. I was looking at some Youtube videos (not for a Maxima) and one video said the pedal can remain at the car but should eventually return to the full up position at some point during the procedure when they say something about depressing the pedal 5x to "push out the concentric slave cylinder piston" which I didn't understand since the assistant would pump the pedal each time at least 3x unless we weren't pumping it enough. But other sites seem to indicate on some cars you will always have to manually pull the pedal back up. Does anyone know whether the pedal should return on its own for my car and what I might try to achieve that? My factory service manual says nothing about having to manually pull up on the pedal. I will note that during the bleeder open/close phase, I wasn't sure if it should be opened in just a short burst, or allowed to remain open for a few seconds.
pages CL4 and CL5 for those interested:
https://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/Maxima/1995/cl.pdf