Name: 5 Things You Should Never Do In A Manual Transmission Vehicle
Uploaded: 2017-03-11T13:57:30.000Z
Duration: 8 min 33 s
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In this video we'll be talking about five bad habits

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that you may fall into driving a manual transmission vehicle.

there's a lot of things happening with a manual transmission

if you don't fully understand how they work.

So we're gonna get into these bad habits and

talk about why exactly you may not want to do them.

So the first one is you shouldn't rest your hand on the gear shift in a manual transmission vehicle

you shouldn't use it as a hand rest instead whenever you need to shift gear, you know do the gear shift

and then take your hand of put it back on the wheel, do the gear shift take your hand off put back on the wheel

if you need to down shift take your hand off put it back on the wheel

you shouldn't be resting your hand on the gear shift

so why shouldn't you rest your hand on the gear shift?  well you have too understand whats happening within the transmission

so when you are shifting a gear you have a selector fork and you are pushing that selector fork

up against a rotating collar and you press that collar into the gear that you wanna choose

So what you have happening is you have static object that just moves back and forth rubbing up against this rotating component thats used to select the gear

So you're gonna have a little bit of wear on that selector fork when you do shift gears. But it's not much because it's a very short duration where you pressing up against it

now if you're leaving your hand on the gear shift while it's in gear

what's happening is you could be applying pressure on that selector fork

up against that collar so you've got a rotating component pressing up against

selector fork and you can wear out that selector fork and so you don't want

to be doing that. Now if you just put a little bit of a pressure on it if you're

not really touching it much if you're just kind of holding in place because

you're going to you know select another gear next

it's not a huge deal but you should know that putting pressure on it can cause

premature wear of those gear for it's because you're pressing up against the

rotating component and you can even find in owner's manuals it will tell you

not to use the gear shift as a hand rest.  now another good reason not to leave

your hand on the gear shift is that it's also just a good idea to have both hands

on the wheel for maximum control especially in any sort of competitive

one bad habit is to leave it in gear while you're sitting at a stoplight so

if you come up to a stoplight the best idea instead of just leaving it in gear

take it out of here put it in neutral and let your foot off the clutch

so why should you do this well here is the pressure plate and this is the

diaphragm spring and so this is what's going to be engaging and disengaging

your clutch and so within your transmission this is the throw out

bearing and so when you push in that clutch pedal

what you're doing is you're pushing the throw out bearing up against this

diaphragm spring and you're relieving pressure so that it doesn't clamp down

so when you're sitting at a stoplight and you put it in gear

what you're doing is you're pressing this up against it and you can wear out

these throw out bearing so it's unnecessary wear to just have it sitting

let out the clutch and then you know it can sit there and it's not wearing up

now the other thing is when you do have your clutch engaged with it in neutral

you're not gonna have your clutch spinning in there so you know if you did

start to have some clearance issues with your clutch

you could have some premature we're just sitting there with an in gear

rather than engaging it now people will argue hey you know you want to have it

in gear just in case you need to get up and go or whatever but you know there's

plenty of scenarios where there's going to be a car in front of you a car behind

things like that there's no need to just leave it in gear and it doesn't really

take any time to put it into gear it's a very quick thing to do

and the other thing people say it's like hey you know you might get rear-ended

you want to have it in gear so that you know if your foot comes off the clutch

your vehicle stops it's like well you should have your foot on the brake so if

you are going to get rounded your foots are going to be on the break I've had

unfortunately in my Subaru STi where I've been stopped with my foot on the

brake cards in neutral and I've been hit from behind and it's not a big deal you

know you keep your foot on the brake your kind of natural reaction in an

emergency situation like that is a tendency to break because you don't want

so your thought is I need to stop moving so you hit the brake when your foots

already on it you know obviously you're just going to stay stopped but anyways

the big . there with leaving it in neutral when you come to a stop light is

to prevent premature wear of this throw out bearing which is going to be

pressing up against that diaphragm spring

moving on to number three you should never use the clutch to hold yourself on

a hill and this may seem pretty obvious but plenty of people still do it where

you basically feather the throttle and the clutch pedal to get that sweet spot

roll down the hill but what you're doing is you're burning up the friction

material on your clutch disc so your clutch is spinning at one speed and your

engines is the pressure plate here which sandwiches this clutch disc between the

this is going to be rotating at another speed based on your throttle

so you're rotating this at one speed in order to bring this up to speed and in

doing so you're just gonna be wearing out this friction material because this

is rubbing up against the pressure plate and flywheel and so you're going to be

wearing out your clutch and there's just absolutely no reason to do that

so instead what you should be doing is just holding the brake when you're on

the hill that seems pretty obvious but the next question is okay well how do I

well there's two things that you can do actually probably three things a lot of

modern cars now come with break hold and so when you're on a hill and you have

the clutch pressed in when you let your foot off the brake

they'll tend to hold you now plenty of vehicles do not for example I don't

and so in that case if it's not a big hill you know you can just kind of wait

and then get on to the throttle fairly quickly bring out your clutch a little

bit so you know you're ready to do that and have a transition you may roll a

little bit back but not much where it matters now the third scenario let's say

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