Engeneering Explained : 5 Bad Habits You Should Never Do With a Manual

Here are five bad habits you may all fall into while driving a manual transmission vehicle. Behind the scenes there are a lot of things happening while you are operating a manual that you may not be thinking about if you don't fully understand how they work.

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Here are five bad habits you may all fall into while driving a manual transmission vehicle.
Behind the scene there are a lot of things happening while you are operating a manual that you may not be thinking about if you don't fully understand how they work.
So we are going to get into those bad habits and try to explain why exactly you don't want to do them!

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1. Don't use the gear leaver as a hand-rest

You have to understand what's happening within the transmission.
Using your gearshift as a hand-rest can cause premature wear of the trans-axle shift forks. What's happening is you are having a static component(gear forks) pressing against a rotating component.

shift forks

2. Do not hold your car in gear while on a stop light !

Leaving your car into neutral when coming to a stop light will save you a lot of trouble.
If the car is in gear with clutch pressed, premature wear of the throw bearing which is going to be pressing against the
diaphragm spring will occur.

3.Never use your clutch to hold yourself on a hill.

Reason- you will be burning the friction material (ferodo) on the clutch disk.The clutch disk is relatively expensive and hard to replace depending on the model of the vehicle.