Shifting question for any manual transmission
06-16-2010, 07:04 AM
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Shifting question for any manual transmission Just curious if what I've been doing is a good or bad habit that I got into. Lately in any manual transmission vehicle if I'm in 5th (6th) gear and coming to a stop sign or stop light, when I slow to the point where the tach is around 1K rpm +- depending on vehicle, I just pull it out of gear. No clutch. I only do it when it will come out of gear easily. My reasoning for this is it would seem to me this is less wear and tear on throw out bearing etc. Is it bad for something else though? This way I'm not holding clutch in while sitting at stop light, or having to push clutch in, and let back out in neutral, then push in again before taking off. Or is sitting at a light with clutch pushed in not that hard on a throwout bearing? I've been told it's not a good thing to do.
06-16-2010, 10:19 AM
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You aren't going to hurt anything. You can feel when there is no load on the gear and if it pops out with little force it isn't going to tear anything up. But doing it to save the throw out bearing is kinda dumb. Just go on and say your too lazy to hit the clutch that one time. I know cause I do it too on both my vehicles.
06-16-2010, 10:49 AM
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You aren't going to hurt anything. You can feel when there is no load on the gear and if it pops out with little force it isn't going to tear anything up. But doing it to save the throw out bearing is kinda dumb. Just go on and say your too lazy to hit the clutch that one time. I know cause I do it too on both my vehicles.
That's exactly when I do it, no positive or negative loading so to speak. Just slips out of gear.
Thanks just wanting to make sure I wasn't hurting anything in any manual transmissions.
06-16-2010, 11:34 AM
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Yeah it makes 660 rwhp on a little shot of nitrous. But it's 2wd so it is a slouch out of the hole.
In that truck if I want to coast I'll give it enough throttle to maintain my speed and it will pop out of gear with ease.
In that truck if I want to coast I'll give it enough throttle to maintain my speed and it will pop out of gear with ease.
