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by enniroc
Tue May 10, 2016 9:42 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

Rope-Pusher wrote:Just as men were designed with testicles that are highly sensitive to injury, that in order to avoid a repeat performance of the severe pain we take better care of them in the future, so it is with burnt clutch smell.
Duly noted!
by enniroc
Tue May 10, 2016 4:39 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

it seems I now need to hold the clutch a fraction of a second longer when shifting into first. That's subjective and easily mistaken via paranoia/hypochondria. Autochondria. Heh. I was wondering about that. I would guess that I glazed the clutch, but hey-- ZERO smell today. All gone. Encouraging. I...
by enniroc
Tue May 10, 2016 5:55 am
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

It's best to plan ahead to avoid that situation. Once you're there and it's too late you can let that clutch pedal all the way up and then brake down to a little below idle if you want, but sometimes you just need to cowboy up. Anyway you didn't hurt anything. Even if you had (which you haven't), t...
by enniroc
Tue May 10, 2016 5:50 am
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

tankinbeans wrote:If it's a long, steep hill you might want to let out completely. You don't really need gas and won't be going as fast as you think.
Got it-- thanks. I couldn't figure out in the moment whether letting it out completely would stall me or send me careening into a spruce.
by enniroc
Tue May 10, 2016 5:49 am
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

It shouldn't be serious damage in most cases doing something like that once. If you aren't comfortable getting enough speed to get off the clutch, you have very little alternative. The only definite arrow in your quiver at that point would be to keep the engine RPM very low. If you have time on you...
by enniroc
Sun May 08, 2016 7:46 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Reversing in parking garage
Replies: 29
Views: 10928

Re: Reversing in parking garage

Sure, that's all fine for level, paved ground, but try that pushing a trailer up a grassy hill and you'll build up too much heat in the clutch. That's why Dog invented gear ratios, to spare the clutch. My 6 gears & I have come a long way in the past 9 months, but today I had to reverse up a lon...
by enniroc
Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:40 pm
Forum: New Member Introductions
Topic: Hello from chilly New York
Replies: 14
Views: 10697

Re: Hello from chilly New York

Anything has got to be better than how my dad tried to "teach" me. We never made it into a vehicle; he's too paranoid to let me drive anything even though it's my brothers who destroyed his car TWICE. His only instruction was to "ease off the clutch as you're easing on the gas."...
by enniroc
Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:36 pm
Forum: New Member Introductions
Topic: Hello from chilly New York
Replies: 14
Views: 10697

Re: Hello from chilly New York

To not bother teaching the kids, making them learn on their own, after replacing all your own cars with manuals? That's weird. Well, at least you've got us for that! Weird, I agree. The only thing I can figure is that it's such second nature for them, they figured we'd sort it out on our own. Which...
by enniroc
Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:17 am
Forum: New Member Introductions
Topic: Hello from chilly New York
Replies: 14
Views: 10697

Re: Hello from chilly New York

When I was learning to drive, my parents were dead-set against them and figured they'd be gone from the roads within a few years. A few years later, their income dropped, & they started buying manuals again. I had to just take one out on a back road & teach myself. *shrug* You done painted ...
by enniroc
Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:47 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns
Replies: 9
Views: 3587

Re: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns

tankinbeans wrote:There are always opportunities to change things and make them more to your liking with a (chop)stick. That's why I love them so much. I have nothing useful to add, but I wanted to do a driveby howdy.
Howdy! Just gotta be careful not to wave while shifting....
by enniroc
Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns
Replies: 9
Views: 3587

Re: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns

Yanno what they call people who overthink their speaking? Stutterers. Give them something else to think about, like carrying a tune, and the stuttering stops. You need to join "Overthinkers Anonymous". Ha! I wish that was my problem. I get people in the car distracting me or a good song c...
by enniroc
Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:27 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns
Replies: 9
Views: 3587

Re: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns

1) It is definitely different until you've gotten enough recent varying experience to shrug off the difference. It will come with practice. If you want to force the issue, going to an empty parking lot and practicing no-gas launches should move things along, at least in the appropriate footwear at ...
by enniroc
Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:21 pm
Forum: New Member Introductions
Topic: Hello from chilly New York
Replies: 14
Views: 10697

Re: Hello from chilly New York

Welcome! I'm just getting back into driving stick after several years away from it, too. Some old, old neurons are still expecting my new Nissan to shift like an old Jeep. Sorry, brain, no can do. I'm envious you were able to learn on a manual. When I was learning to drive, my parents were dead-set ...
by enniroc
Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:11 pm
Forum: Manual Driving Tips
Topic: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns
Replies: 9
Views: 3587

Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns

Hello again, folks. Well, Nov. 5 marked 3 months & 4500 km with my Juke. My transmission still seems too fussy & sensitive for its own good (compared to what I'm used to: tractors, Jeeps, old Hondas), but I'm getting along OK. Very fun vehicle to drive once I get the hell out of 2nd gear. I ...