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Is letting the clutch out realy that necessary? Couldn't you just wait for the intermediate shaft to slow down on its own, with the clutch in? If you keep the clutch in, the intermediate shaft is not connected to the engine and, therefore, you cannot see what its relative speed comparing to the eng...

The first one will help reduce the clutch wear. The second one will help reduce the synchro wear and the clutch wear. I do almost as described in the second option, but there is a difference: Clutch in -> Shift to neutral -> Clutch fully out -> Wait for the RPM to drop -> Clutch in -> Shift to highe...

But why "International" forum?

StandardShifterMz3s wrote:Hmmm.......

What's up with you?

i'm on cable with 5Mbps downstream and 512Kbps upstream. What is your provider? When I signed up for the AT&T Broadband (in 2002) it was 1.5 mbps/512 kbps, but now Comcast took over AT&T, and the speed kinda increased. I don't know what the maximum speed is, but sometimes it goes as high as...

I just want to gather some information that may be useful when I want to upload some photos or video.

Well, I occasionally drive by...

Well, I am a male as you might guess from my nickname. My fiancee wanted to learn a manual about one year ago. We practiced two times in a very big parking lot, and I already got her driving in 2nd gear, but then suddenly she said she was scared and just stopped :( I told her she was learning much f...

Here's what I do whenever I park uphill (after turning off the engine): 1) Set the parking brake 2) Shift into 1st or reverse 3) Release the parking brake and wait for the car to roll back a little bit. 4) After I make sure that the engine can hold the car all by itself, I set the parking brake agai...

METRIC RULES!!! Metric rules indeed 8) In college, we learn Chem and Phys using metric system and nobody seems to get a problem with this. Even California Department of Transportation (DOT) became metric a while ago! Sadly, some of the states DOTs are converting back to Imperial system. I guess if ...

Sweet! I use both systems as well: gallons and miles when I am driving, and liters along with meters in my daily life.

Just want to know how many foreigners are here