Noticed 2" of play in my clutch pedal on a 2002, 4cyl, 5 spd manual
transmission Frontier.
Want to fix it myself. Local dealer only uses cheapest labor. Vehicles
returned dirty and late----No more.
Auto parts shops and Nissan dealer indicate that Chiltons, etc have not
published any repair or service manuals for the 2002 Frontier.
Vehicle has 93,500 mi. with constant maintenance. Dealer wants $500 to tear
down transmission, then some un-godly amount to fix. Seems to use parts
changers, but paying for a mechanic.
Suspect all the 15, 30, 45, 60, etc etc maintenance fees where a waste of
money.
Does anyone know of a good manual and/or know how to tighten up the clutch
pedal play. I don't want to cause any harm. The transmission only makes a
strange noise when going from first to second and only at revs greater than
2500 rpm.
As a final comment, a couple of months ago I took the truck in for an oil
change and the person moving the truck was revving the engine to move the
truck. I ran over and told him the parking brake was on!!!!!!
Digital Doug
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Tech38 - 26 Mar 2005 02:38 GMT
Just but yourself a cheap ($13 - $14) copy of a Nissan manual by the
Haynes company for the <older> pickups. I just bought a copy of the
"up to 1997" Haynes manual & discovered it was almost identical to
the 1996 one I already had! If you need it, I could sell you may
1996 copy for the price of mailing it - lets' call that "$3". I noted
in the up to 1997 copy there is information on adjusting the
*hydraulic* clutch. On page 1-34 (fairly sure) there is info on adjusting
the pedal height & free travel and on page 8-6 there is info about
"bleeding" (getting all the air out of the hydraulic lines) the clutch
system.
This stufff is not Rocket Science at all. The damned franchised dealers
will "slaughter" you - quite frequently. I could tell you horror stories
about that nonsense!
I might be able to scan a couple pages and put attachments on an
e-mail & send 'em to you - provided you don't need all that many
pages. Let me know by e-mail. - Rob
> Noticed 2" of play in my clutch pedal on a 2002, 4cyl, 5 spd manual
> transmission Frontier.
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Marco Licetti - 26 Mar 2005 19:01 GMT
Manuals come in three types:
a) Owner's - comes with new vehicle or from previous owner if he didnt lose
it!
b) Service (shop) manuals from manufacturer, in this case Nissan. SOmetimes
similar info is produced by a third-party licensed by manufacurer or not
licenesed at all - someone just makes up a CD. book, etc. designed to
replicate manufactyuer's book.
c) Repair manuals from well known publisher's like Haynes, CHilton, these
sometimes lag in time, i.e. there's nothing for my new 2004 Sentra and all
they offer is pre-2000 Sentra's from Haynes
My solution was:
a) I have Owner's manual came with a new car, obiosuly; but also:
b) MULTIPLE service/shop manuals from Ebay, multiple because no one was
complete and a few were lying (generic "car repair" disk, nothign specific
on sentras) but they were so cheap I dont complain ($12-20). So do this:
1. Search Ebay. Sometimes supercheap ($15 or less) CD's are a hoax good for
any generic car but not your specific model and not deep, just basic crap
extracted from websites, books, etc. However my manuals from Ebay were 100%
OK.
2. Search Haynes
3. Search Chilton
4. Check manufacturer's website, perhaps call. In my case Nissan explicitly
SPELLED OUT HOW TO GET Service (shop) manual in the back of User's manual
(guide), i went there and found cost $100's, so not acceptable for a single
person like me (OK only for a large shop or someone rich), so got from Ebay
instead (not Nissan's official, but similar).
5. Check helminc.com
6. Check www.courtesyparts.com/nissan-manual/index.html Some (not all)
manuals there.
ALl about Nissan's manuals, parts, etc
Finally:
6. Search Web via Google, will return lots of false "hits" and
time-consuming - the last resort however this is how I did find all about
Chilton's, Haynes and helminc.com when I was a car moron seeveral years ago,
helminc still in business and I got owner's manuals from them, buit no
shop - shop was overpriced agagin.