Things My Father Taught Me

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/14/2016 at 21:47 • Filed to: None

From the current issue of Popular Mechanics:

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http://www.mustangspecs.com/bullitt.shtml

DISCUSSION (6)

tpw_rules > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/14/2016 at 21:56

This is how my dad taught me. Worked excellently.

Invinciblejets > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/14/2016 at 22:03

Exactly. this is always how I try to explain it when teaching.

I taught my fiancé on my rx7 wth a pretty heavy clutch this way and she didn’t stall once. (Till she had to stop and forgot to push in the clutch)

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/14/2016 at 22:18

Well worded. Yep, the driver has to feel it for themself, and a flat parking lot is a good place to develop that feel before getting into the whole moving-two-pedals-simultaneously part of it.

However, I still maintain that “panic mode” is the very first thing that needs to be taught. If the car is about to stall, DISENGAGE CLUTCH. If the car is moving and needs to stop BRAKE AND DISENGAGE CLUTCH at the same time.

His Stigness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/15/2016 at 02:16

This method doesn’t always work, though. I think it only works in smaller engines with less power. I can’t decide if this is the best way to learn, or learn on a diesel like I did, which won’t idle itself forward, but will stall. Learning on my TDI has enabled me to drive any manual car now. Granted a lot of it has to do with this concept of feeling the clutch. But having learned on a car that wasn’t forgiving has made it to where I don’t stall a new car like most people.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > His Stigness
05/15/2016 at 10:27

I figured it out on my own. So eager to drive, was I, that I'd studied it out thoroughly before I ever took the wheel.

His Stigness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/15/2016 at 15:17

There's also that.