I just realized today I don't have to press the clutch all the way down to the floor and release it all the way up...

I've got 4 manuals.
They all do it m8.
One I installed the twin disc clutch set up in.

Be driving down the road in 2nd gear slowing down, then when the revs are at like 1,000 gently push the stick towards neutral and then just barely touch the throttle, it'll come out of gear.

This is what I mean. It's enough to just hold the pedal somewhere around the red lines if you know you're going to be clutching very soon again, to save time and effort. Might be better for the car too, I don't know. All this time I've been going all the way up and all the way down.

Once you get a feel for it you can ride the clutch and even brake with it.

Yeah, that's by design.
You ever be playing a video game console and your joy stick is never in the center so you're always turning?
Same shit.
So there's a dead zone before and after the clutch engagement and disengagement

Don't know what you mean by ride the clutch. But I've been using it as a break for a long time, usually when shifting down, in combination with the brake.

>Be driving down the road in 2nd gear slowing down, then when the revs are at like 1,000 gently push the stick towards neutral and then just barely touch the throttle, it'll come out of gear.
I thought it always came out of gear without using the clutch? Although I do clutch for some reason, but I think I tried it a few times without clutching and I think it worked. So you're saying normally it shouldn't be possible to just put the gear in neutral without clutching, unless you just barely touch the throttle? Kind of off-topic though.

It's possible to slide it out of gear without clutching and without removing the load from the engine, but it's harder.
If your take the load off the drivetrain you're doing minimal wear across the board.

>You ever be playing a video game console and your joy stick is never in the center so you're always turning?
>Same shit.
Don't know what you mean.
>So there's a dead zone before and after the clutch engagement and disengagement
I've always known this. But for some reason I thought you had to go all the way up and all the way down between gears. I guess I thought that zone only affected when power comes on and off and not the shifting of gears or something. I just hit me today that it might be unnessary to go all the way down. Then after a while I also figured why go all the way up.

*it just hit me

>Then after a while I also figured why go all the way up.
You should go all the way up even if the clutch feels fully engaged.
Just because it's not slipping at 1000rpm at 20% throttle doesn't mean it won't slip at 5000rpm at 100% throttle.

You *should* go all the way down, because if you don't actually know where it disengages you can be putting stress on your syncros by shifting into gear with a dragging clutch, but this really only applies to starting from neutral.

If you press the clutch too far, the little levers will actually bend around and start to put pressure on the disk again

Adjust your clutch.

>If you press the clutch too far, the little levers will actually bend around and start to put pressure on the disk again
>The little levers
The fucking wot m8?
The clutch fork can't bend around again.
The fingers on the pressure plate can't bend around again.
The rod on the slave can't bend around again
Literally what the fuck are you on about m8?

fingers on the pressure plate m8.

So you go all the way up and all the way down always? Yeah when I'm standing still I guess I'll have the clutch pressed down to the floor if that's what you mean.

it's a mercedes 240d with one adjustment available at the master cylinder push rod. it's stumped me because I've never read of someone having the same problem on mercedes forums (being able to change gears at 1/2 clutch pedal down, but not when fully down). I'll try to adjust this correctly user.

I always go all the way back up, because you should keep your foot off the clutch.

You shouldn't do that. Bad for clutch. Says so in manual.

>riding and slipping the clutch continuously

In my aw11 if I rev match properly I don't even have to clutch to move up a gear. It's slower than actually shifting though because there's a little resistance when you shift to neutral and then up

>clutch is kill in hobby shitbox
>let it sit for a year
>finally install new clutch and replace fucked pedalbox
>now have massive action clutch with only tiny clutch point about half way through movement
Wat do?

Somewhat unrelated, but I totally expect some car company to come up with a drive by wire clutch in the next few years. Instead of your foot operating a cable it will just be a pressure sensor that translates your input into input on the clutch. Could make it completely eliminate stalls or burning the clutch out on hills

>Cable
Very few cars made in the last 30 years came with a cable clutch mate.
Clutches are nearly always hydraulic.

Yeah that's called clutchless shifting. Some people call it floating gears. Usually boomers and spics tho.

Sometimes when I'm bored in slower moving traffic I'll do all my gear changes without using the clutch.
Up changes are easy, down changes you have to blip the throttle in neutral and rev match before the gears will mesh.

That's what happens in 90% cases.
You are taught how to sit in a car and roll but not how to DRIVE.
Not to mention you never go past 60kph @ driving school.

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