jhg1232 wrote:I have tried giving gas right when I get to the engagement point when coming off the clutch and it has given me smoother shifts but i want to know, is it bad on the clutch to give gas while releasing clutch?
That's exactly the right thing to do. By giving it enough accelerator pedal input to prevent it from jerking, you are preventing slipping the clutch. If you instead let it sit at idle and jerk, then that is slipping the clutch. (In reality it's a harmless level of slip, but I'm explaining it on a strictly technical level to point out that you are already doing the very best thing that can be done.)
In addition, everyone says dont slip the clutch but isnt it kind of necessarry when driving at very slow speeds like when parking, or reversing?
Don't slip the clutch
excessively. Do slip it as necessary for launching, low speed driving, reversing, and smoothing shifts.
Also don't shift during a turn if you're in a race and have no traction to spare -- but go ahead if you're on the road driving safely like you should. Also don't hold the clutch pedal to the floor for 10 minutes straight while idling outside the store waiting for your wife to come out -- but go ahead and hold it to the floor at a stop sign for 10 seconds. All this stuff is okay and necessary to do in moderation, not okay to do in the extreme, and the message gets mangled by the time it reaches a lot of people who get a paranoid fear of doing these necessary things at all.
daleadbull wrote:PaintDrinkingPete wrote:One other thing, when going from 1st to 2nd gear, the longer you wind up in 1st, the harder it is to get a "smooth" shift into 2nd. Unless you're trying to accelerate quickly or starting on an incline, try dropping into 2nd earlier, as soon as you get the car adequately moving after launching in first...that may help
It sounds like he's letting the rpms drop too low while shifting so shifting earlier might only exasperate the issue.
This varies for each person/car. For some it will exacerbate the situation, for some it will improve it. The idea is to experiment.
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