• Botzo@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    You’ve gotten a lot of solid practical advice, so I’ll take it to theory.

    Learn how it works and what happens when you push that clutch in and let it out.

    Here’s a video with a lot of detail and animation.

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      15 days ago

      +1. When you know what is going on inside you can get a much better feel for what the car is doing.
      When you are cruising along, if you back off the accellerator a bit you can feel the whole drivetrain go ‘loose’ (If you back off a bit more you will start engine braking). This the backlash in the gearbox & you will find you can pop it out of gear without the clutch quite easily. Putting it back in without the clutch is best practiced on an enemies car.