Duly noted!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.
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- Tue May 10, 2016 9:42 pm
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
Re: Reversing in parking garage
- Tue May 10, 2016 4:43 pm
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Stick it to The Man: Cars that still offer a manual transmission in 2016
- Replies: 60
- Views: 37384
Re: Stick it to The Man: Cars that still offer a manual transmission in 2016
Chevrolet SS? What the hell were they thinking?!
- Tue May 10, 2016 4:39 pm
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
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...
- Tue May 10, 2016 5:55 am
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
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...
- Tue May 10, 2016 5:50 am
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
Re: Reversing in parking garage
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.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.
- Tue May 10, 2016 5:49 am
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
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...
- Sun May 08, 2016 7:46 pm
- Forum: Manual Driving Tips
- Topic: Reversing in parking garage
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11200
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...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:40 pm
- Forum: New Member Introductions
- Topic: Hello from chilly New York
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11020
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."...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:36 pm
- Forum: New Member Introductions
- Topic: Hello from chilly New York
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11020
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...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:17 am
- Forum: New Member Introductions
- Topic: Hello from chilly New York
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11020
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 ...
- 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: 3697
Re: Shoes; passengers; gas tank; 2nd gear starts; 1st gear & turns
Howdy! Just gotta be careful not to wave while shifting....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.
- 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: 3697
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...
- 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: 3697
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 ...
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:21 pm
- Forum: New Member Introductions
- Topic: Hello from chilly New York
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11020
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 ...
- 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: 3697
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 ...