RE: doors

["sead causevic" <sead69@hotmail.com>]

i ussualy don't use the clutch in a honda.  not worth the effort.  just 
pull hard on the shift lever and it'll talk back to you.

>From: Brian Honnold <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>
>To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: doors
>Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:54:03 -0700
>
>I taught the wife to drive stick (another late bloomer) in my Roc and I 
>just made sure that she depressed the clutch all the way on each shift. 
> Skipping gears won't hurt anything but big jumps like 1st to 4th at 
>3000RPMs will bog the motor bad.  If your buddy does this just have him 
put 
>it back into neutral and try again.  Don't even bother trying to teach 
him 
>downshift braking until he gets the upshift part right.
>
>Oh, it's an Honda
>
>Well then he should obviously rev the motor and yank it out of gear 
with 
>the clutch depressed one inch.  The he sould let the clutch out and 
cram it 
>into any other gear by applying large amounts of pressure to the 
gearshift.
>
>Brian Honnold
>'78 Rocco Ragtop
>
>On Monday, October 05, 1998 10:36 AM, Gregory Frenzel 
>[SMTP:fren0027@tc.umn.edu] wrote:
>> I  heard that this thread was happening just before I joined, can we
>> visit it again?   just something minor lilke adjusting the bottom 
door
>> hing on the drivers side door so it'll close easily and properly.   
I've
>> already tefloned it, do I need new pins?
>>
>> second, I have a friend who is learning how to drive a clutch-- late
>> bloomer--, he's wanting to know some background information.
>> Specifically, what we've all heard before, that it hurts the car to 
skip
>> gears either down or up shifting.   I told him that I couldn't 
possibly
>> see how, unless he wasn't working the clutch right i.e. all the way.
>> If we can't get this resolved no biggie, it's only an Integra
>>
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