Explaining a clutch

[PrettyInPink]

Ok so my mom (Bless Her) thinks she knows everything there is to know about everything. She drives an automatic duramax and floors it everywhere she goes. Then she gets in my Dodge 6 speed and thinks she can do the same thing. She continually slips my clutch in almost every gear and she doesnt understand that she's doing it. She doesnt believe that what she is hearing is the clutch slipping. So can someone please tell me how to explain to her exactly what is going on because I honestly dont completely know myself

Thanks!

 

[sb clutch]

Ok so my mom (Bless Her) thinks she knows everything there is to know about everything. She drives an automatic duramax and floors it everywhere she goes. Then she gets in my Dodge 6 speed and thinks she can do the same thing. She continually slips my clutch in almost every gear and she doesnt understand that she's doing it. She doesnt believe that what she is hearing is the clutch slipping. So can someone please tell me how to explain to her exactly what is going on because I honestly dont completely know myself

Thanks!

Call me and I will give you the skinny.

Peter
800-988-4345

 

[JasonCzerak]

Ok so my mom (Bless Her) thinks she knows everything there is to know about everything. She drives an automatic duramax and floors it everywhere she goes. Then she gets in my Dodge 6 speed and thinks she can do the same thing. She continually slips my clutch in almost every gear and she doesnt understand that she's doing it. She doesnt believe that what she is hearing is the clutch slipping. So can someone please tell me how to explain to her exactly what is going on because I honestly dont completely know myself

Thanks!

Oh that's an easy one. My mom destroyed many clutches.... DONT LET HER DRIVE THE TRUCK. And if that doesn't work, make sure she pays the bill for a new one.

 

[dragnsled]

Oh that's an easy one. My mom destroyed many clutches.... DONT LET HER DRIVE THE TRUCK. And if that doesn't work, make sure she pays the bill for a new one.

Thats what I thought. The :rules: state that my mom may never drive a vehicle with a clutch.

 

[BearBeatsAll]

Well she doesnt always have a choice in the letting her mom drive her truck when she is in her moms vehicle and her mom needs something to drive. Her mom doesnt listen to me though when I tried to tell her it was the clutch but what do I know.

 

[weazel]

Lol what is it with moms and clutches?? My mom exploded a clutch on my dads truck a couple of years ago, and he tries to hide the keys whenever she asks to use it! LOL

 

[chasespeed]

Wow, I must have the only mother that can drive a stick... other than an Old 79 Cougar, and the current ford POS... she has always had a stick.....

Hell, I remember being a teenagerright about 15 or 16, and HER showing me what heel-toeing was.....:hehe:

She had an old Maverick Grabber then.....(302 4spd)....:rockwootthat was a FUN little car)

 

[4x4dually]

There are many different vehicle clutch designs but most are based on one or more friction discs, pressed tightly together or against a flywheel using springs. The friction material varies in composition depending on whether the clutch is dry or wet, and on other considerations. Friction discs once contained asbestos, but this has been largely eliminated. Clutches found in heavy duty applications such as trucks and competition cars use ceramic clutches that have a greatly increased friction coefficient; however, these have a "grabby" action and are unsuitable for road cars. The spring pressure is released when the clutch pedal is depressed thus either pushing or pulling the diaphragm of the pressure plate, depending on type, and the friction plate is released and allowed to rotate freely.

When engaging the clutch, the engine speed may need to be increased from idle, using the manual throttle, so that the engine does not stall (although in some cars, especially diesels, there is enough torque at idling speed that the car can move; this requires fine control of the clutch). However, raising the engine speed too high while engaging the clutch will cause excessive clutch plate wear. Engaging the clutch abruptly when the engine is turning at high speed causes a harsh, jerky start. This kind of start is necessary and desirable in drag racing and other competitions where speed is more of an issue than comfort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch

 

[me1magoo]

Mom doesn't drive mine- neither does the wife. <that right there, that is a PERIOD! Matter of fact- no one else drives my truck. <another period! Ok, so that was all just for fun- in fact she needs to understand the basics- automatics are made to slip and slide (hence the nick name slushbox) and make things easy for the driver, where as a manual is made to select one gear and then the next- no maybe this or a little less or any of that crap, you select the gear, you let the clutch out and that's the gear you have, no holding in the clutch a little as you smash on the throttle to make it smooth. Like my technical explanation??