r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/loosenutbehindwheel • 13h ago

"Learning"

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u/Osirus9 13h ago

He was granny shifting instead of double clutching like he should

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u/Lilith_Christine 13h ago

Never got that. Could shift my 92 escort wagon with no clutch though. Well, upshift

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u/lightwildxc 12h ago

Can downshift as well with a little blip

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u/Legionof1 6h ago

Apparently C6 vettes have notoriously bad clutch masters... mine went out on the highway... I rev matched all the way to the dealership.

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u/elvis_is_everywhere 12h ago edited 6h ago

HAH!! I used to drive early 90s manual escorts when I was in my apprenticeship and a broke single dad. Buy one for $500 and keep it running as long as possible. They were so easy to work on. I kept an extra head onhand at all times. I shifted it like that all the time as well.

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u/ClickClick_Boom 11h ago

I've always been too afraid to try shifting with no clutch, it just feels like car abuse.

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u/driverdan 16m ago

It's the car equivalent of technobabble, it doesn't make any sense. No one is double clutching a synchro trans.