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Originally Posted by ShoGun
2 quick questions:
1- When on a small incline at a stop light or stopsign is it damaging to the clutch to find the engaging point and toggle (or seesaw) between clutch and gas to maintain your position?
2- Is it damaging to the car or clutch to not fully press in the clutch when changing gears? I noticed I can engage the clutch fully (all the way pressed in) and shift but when I do i get a bit of lurching when i disengage since the RPMS drop down when in the neutral transition phase.
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1 - you will burn your clutch out. The proper way to handle that situation is to juggle gas/clutch/parking brake such that you keep the vehicle from rolling back down the hill with the parking brake as you balance the clutch/gas enough to get forward motion, then ease off the parking brake. And just like with drifting, you always keep the brake button depressed while you're doing this (you don't want to lock, obviously).
2 - If you know where your clutch engagement point is, then no - it's not necessary to push all the way down. In fact, our cars have a pretty high engagement point which alot of us have complained about. There's a good DIY guide on how to adjust this though. I haven't decided if I'm going to do that or just get used to it.