My 1996 nissan Altima GXE 5 Speed Has a full battery and everything. My g/f and I were driving it, I was teaching her to drive a Stick shift and she killed it ALOT then i got in and showed her what happens when you left off the clutch fast and that it will die. Then I triedd to start it again and It wouldn't even make a sound. The lights and horn and everything worked fine but it acted like the car didn't know the clutch was in... What Could it be? Did We burn up the clutch? it's still stiff. Somebody give me some advice
Clutch safety switch maybe . There is a electrical circuit that won't let Battery voltage go to the starter unless the clutch pedal is pressed . The switch should be on top of the clutch pedal arm . You would need to lay on the drivers floor board an look up under the dash . Two wires , green with white stripe - this is the B+ side of the switch , the other side is black . trying to start the vehicle there should be battery voltage , you can use a volt meter to test it . You can also check the other wire as well . If there is no B+ voltage , up stream from the clutch switch is a clutch interlock relay . Here is a web site for free wiring diagrams , do you know what they are ?
http://www.bbbind.com/free_tsb.html Enter the vehicle info. Year , make , model an engine size . Under system click engine , then subsystem click starting . Click the blue link .You will see the ignition switch , the other things i mention . Do you know how to use a DVOM - digital volt ohm meter ?
SOURCE: rough idle, dies when trying to give it gas
it'll either be your ignition system (spark plugs, distributor cap, etc) or more likely your fuel system (most likely your fuel pump or your fuel filter)
SOURCE: my clutch works sometimes and sometimes it
A clutch that's failing doesn't behaves like that - it slowly starts slipping until it fails completely and definitely. If it would break suddenly (like when the pressure plate would snap) the noise and the vibrations it would generate would be unbearable.
No, in your case something is failing inside the transmission/gearbox - most likely in the command forks and their locking pins. The gearbox will have to taken off the car and dismantled to investigate and fix that, and it will be expensive.
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