manual car

[dshiu]

ty for all the inputs!

[maniacshopper]

1. to start car, press clutch and crank, make sure that stick is in Neutral
or else when you depress clutch the car will go.

2. press clutch, feel the clutch take, at what point does it bite.

3. good clutch setup, ie when gear in, and clutch depressed should allow you to sit or slowly crawly forward without gas pedal depressed.

4. don't bother shifting to redline when learning, learn to shift at 2-3k rpm,
lift on gas, press clutch, off gas, shift, depress clutch for bite and gas up.
Practice this, if you are smooth, you wont feel the jerkiness or very little jerk.

5. when you stop on uphill for stop sign, press brake or use e-brake then shift and release ebrake accelerate.

I've driven on and off manual cars. Next car is going to be manual. Had to get auto b/c no one in my family drove stick, and unwilling and the car was a good deal.

[SkylineGTR]

I dunno I agree with SkylineGTR on this one, lol. Doesn't matter if the car is stalled, it's not like the vacuum tank purges when the engine shuts off, you still have lots of vacuum assist and the brakes will still hold the car provided you don't sit there and pump away the vacuum reserve. You'd be screwed trying to stop the car if you lost vacuum but you aren't trying to stop it you're just trying to keep it still when it's already stopped--doesn't take much power. Not only that as soon as that engine cranks (even if it doesn't start) you'll have vacuum again which will only help your brakes out (but they don't need help anyway because the car is already holding).

Get on the brakes and the clutch and restart and you're fine; I see no need to use the parking brake either.

There we go that makes more sense than what I as trying to say. Thanks.

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Why would you engage the e-brake? If you stall it while moving (hard to do imo) then just push the clutch in, go to 1st gear or neutral and restart it. If you stall it at a stop sign then just push in the clutch and brake and restart it; not sure why you would pull the e-brake though.

Well I got my learners I started on a standard, it takes a bit of time to get the hang of it but once you do you'll never forget.

After driving a stick for 20+ years, I have to say this is the steps I do to restart the car. If what he calls e-brake means hand brake or parking brake, I rarely use it. Probably 5 to 6 times a years I use it. I don't use it even when I park the car. Just use 1st gear or reverse gear depending on up/down hills and turn the front wheels accordingly towards the curb. Mostly engine brakes to 2nd gear. Stops the car with brake and clutch pushed at the same time shifts to 1st gear and kills the engine. Thats it. Fast and effective. Never need to adjust the hand brake cable. Some might said it's not a right way to park the car without hand brake on. Hand brake won't help much if the car got hit.

[BanjoBolt]

I miss manual so much my next car will be a manual. Driving auto for too long makes me feel ********!

Different cars have varying level of clutch freeplay. Spend some time trying to move the car from rest without pressing the gas, you will know the engine's response and clutch engagement characteristics, hence minimize stalling.

[maniacshopper]

After driving a stick for 20+ years, I have to say this is the steps I do to restart the car. If what he calls e-brake means hand brake or parking brake, I rarely use it. Probably 5 to 6 times a years I use it. I don't use it even when I park the car. Just use 1st gear or reverse gear depending on up/down hills and turn the front wheels accordingly towards the curb. Mostly engine brakes to 2nd gear. Stops the car with brake and clutch pushed at the same time shifts to 1st gear and kills the engine. Thats it. Fast and effective. Never need to adjust the hand brake cable. Some might said it's not a right way to park the car without hand brake on. Hand brake won't help much if the car got hit.

leaving the gear in 1st helps prevent rolling back. But the e-brake is best to prevent the car from crawling. It's cable controlled, no worries about hydraulic pressure issues.

[slowtyper]

wow, how long have u been driving?

car is stalled, no power brakes, no nothing... how r u supposed to hold the car on a hill with the foot brake? as i said earlier, the tranny could probably hold it

please tell me u've learned a safe hill start before?

edit: i'm pretty sure i know what's key to being a good standard driver

I couldn't get past this post in the thread. You honestly think you can't hold up a car on a hill with a footbrake when the car off???

[isleepinadrawer]

bought a new civic last year, and i just watched a bunch of youtube videos. Took my about a month to not stall it randomly, and another month to get it pretty smooth.

[originalnutta]

OP: My car is on its lasts legs. Its manual, engine works fine, but the transmission refuses to stay in fifth.

I might sell it for $500, or charge $25/hr for manual driving lessons. Most people only need about 5-6 times of driving to understand it.

Let me know if you're interested.

[mikeycanuk]

Just watch that 3rd to 2nd instead of 4th! Did that on my brand new '96 Firebird, ouch. That car had a easy clutch. My Matrix XRS would not have been fun and would have needed a new clutch @20,000km instead of the 44k I actually did replace it. Replaced it with performance clutch like everyone else who had a 6-speed manual XRS. Damm thing is a torqueless wonder and the tranny was designed for a celica GTS not a heavier matrix. Also a wrong shift @8,200rpm would send the engine to an early grave.

I had my dad drive my Firebird home. I hated it the first day. I went up bathurst street to newmarket, no problem! I then drove down a busy Yonge street and stalled it at every light! I got the hang of it the next day and managed downtown traffic.