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What's your advice for someone driving their first manual transmission car? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You've gotten a lot of solid practical advice, so I'll take it to theory.

Learn how it works and what happens when you push that clutch in and let it out.

Here's a video with a lot of detail and animation.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    +1. When you know what is going on inside you can get a much better feel for what the car is doing.
    When you are cruising along, if you back off the accellerator a bit you can feel the whole drivetrain go 'loose' (If you back off a bit more you will start engine braking). This the backlash in the gearbox & you will find you can pop it out of gear without the clutch quite easily. Putting it back in without the clutch is best practiced on an enemies car.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    When my truck’s clutch cylinder blew, I managed to limp it to the shop just by rev-matching and slipping it into each gear. I couldn’t stop without stalling, so I definitely blew a couple stop signs, but I made it.

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