Today, took the car for a ride. I was driving for about 30 min or so. I got on the expressway. Went through WOT 1st, 2nd then proceeded to 3td so I thought. I did not miss 3td but the clutch was stuck to the floor. When I let off the gas it poped back up. What would cause that to happen? Is that a common thing with a clutch. I have had only automatics in the past so I do not know if this is normal. I have 2,700 mi on the car and never had this happen before.
Thanks,

Ted

 

I had a problem like that in my 01 they said it was the clutch peddal return spring.

Hope this helps

 

Finally after 3 weeks in the shop I got the car back. They changed out the complete clutch and slave unit. I beat it hard on the Elgin O'hare to see if it worked. It did, Like a charm. We are back in business. My NoS goes on 3/31. Can't wait.

 

id hate to say this but the problem will come back. i had the same issue and a new z06 clutch fixed it for about 5k miles and it was back again.

Dave

 

This was a problem with the older C5 clutches and was normally a slave problem. We had this on our 98 and replaced the clutch, slave and master cyclinder with a 04 Z06 clutch and have not had any problem since. Don't really know why a new C6 would do this unless you have a bad slave.

 

In my experiences its a PP problem. Did you have your car over at latoff about 5 months ago? These are my trials and tribulations.

I had this problem on the original clutch about a year ago (20k miles). Took it to the dealer, he replaced the slave and the problem came right back. Then he did the drill mod, problem still persisted. Took it back again he replaced the entire clutch assembly w/ a z06 one (I had to pay for clutch). The problem went away for 6 months. Shortly before this started happening I added long tube headers so I thought perhaps that had something to do with it. I put in new high temp racing brake fluid (flushed entire ssytem) and I wrapped the line in that thermal reflective tape and also sliced a -10AN line lengthwise and slid it over. I figured if this didnt repel heat nothing would. Well the problem persisted.

So after it reoccured w/ the z06 clutch winter was almost upon us. So i put it in the garage and decided for ****s and giggles Id put my stock exhaust back in just to verify that wasnt it. While I was doing this i pulled the trans down and inspected the disk, PP and flywheel. Everything was perfect and the disc looked almost unused w/ no burn marks on FW or PP. The PP was torqued evenly and all bolts were good prior to me uninstalling anything (That was my suspision originally). When I put it back together (same 6K Z06 Clutch dealer put in) I put a new z06 slave in it as well as a z06 master. I took it out and sure enough the problem was still there.

At this point I have new z06 slave, master, fresh fluid, and no major heat effects from LT headers close to the line. The only constant was the Pressure plate itself. Seeing as the problem went away for 6 months w/ the new Z06 clutch I figured it was more then likely the PP. To bandaid the problem, I removed the assist spring under my clutch pedal and the problem has not come back once. I could duplicate the problem at will and I cannot duplicate it now. Moral of the story, in most cases I believe the problem is not heat or slave/master related, rather its centrifugal force and the pressure plate not playing nice together.

Dave

 

I hope it does not come back. I wish GM would recall this. By the way I got GM to give me 3yr/36,000 time period of free oil changes for keeping the car so long.