As usual a perfect time for something to go wrong

[slow06]

What would be a conventional time to break down?

I read this before I read the original post and I thought you were stupid...

[Nash B.]

I read this before I read the original post and I thought you were stupid...

But now that you read the post you realize I was him?

[racrguy]

Most manual transmissions come out of gear pretty easy, just pull it into neutral, and coast to the stoplight as usual.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure that your suggestion to start it won't work. With it in 1st gear, and no clutch, the starter will have to force the car forward, while trying to spin the flywheel, no way is it going to go fast enough to start the car. You'll soon be without a starter motor, or a clutch.

Stopping wasn't the issue, taking off was.

I had to do it with a fullsized Bronco that the clutch master cylinder went out in. It will spin it fast enough.

[Mysticcobrakilla]

Most manual transmissions come out of gear pretty easy, just pull it into neutral, and coast to the stoplight as usual.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure that your suggestion to start it won't work. With it in 1st gear, and no clutch, the starter will have to force the car forward, while trying to spin the flywheel, no way is it going to go fast enough to start the car. You'll soon be without a starter motor, or a clutch.

It works. I've done it in a 95 cobra and a 93 coupe.

[CRASH]

Regardless, I'm pretty sure that your suggestion to start it won't work. With it in 1st gear, and no clutch, the starter will have to force the car forward, while trying to spin the flywheel, no way is it going to go fast enough to start the car. You'll soon be without a starter motor, or a clutch.

Here is where I have to say you're wrong, Aaron. I have started several cars in gear. As long as you've got spark and fuel, it will lurch a couple times and fire up and take off.

-Aaron

[Txstang1]

Here is where I have to say you're wrong, Aaron. I have started several cars in gear. As long as you've got spark and fuel, it will lurch a couple times and fire up and take off.

-Aaron

yes sir

[junior]

post tits or gtfo !!!

X2

[racrguy]

Here is where I have to say you're wrong, Aaron. I have started several cars in gear. As long as you've got spark and fuel, it will lurch a couple times and fire up and take off.

-Aaron

It's also a reason why you can't get remote start on a manual transmission car from the factory.

[Big A]

Well, I'll be. Fortunately I've never been in a position to have to try it out.

I can see why the manufacturers don't want to accept the liability for remote start on a manual tranny, but it seems to me a pretty simple safety measure would be a neutral safety switch tied into to the remote start, just like an automatic car can't be started in anything but "park."

[CRASH]

It's also a reason why you can't get remote start on a manual transmission car from the factory.

Exactly. Because the general public is too fucking stupid to realize that you have to have the transmission in neutral and the emergency brake pulled.

[stevo]

It could have been worse, you could have been sitting at the light behind someone with the clutch depressed and in gear, and the cable snap. Then you have rear-ended a car AND can't get out of the way.

I had this happen in my Suzuki Samurai, but was lucky enough that the 63 hp engine stalled when the clutch popped.

Stevo

[Snatch Napkin]

Been there, done that. Cranked up the car in gear and slowed down way early while otherwise floating gears.

It sucks, but just know it will happen again.

[KBScobravert]

It is a mustang, we have all been there. lol

I have a spare cable in my garage; if the Cobra ever drives again and I don't go hydraulic I am going to keep the cable in the trunk with the tools to swap it out.

[deso]

1. Turn car off
2. Put car in 1st gear
3 Depress clutch pedal, as most switches attach to the pedal, not the transmission
4 start car
5 ???
6 PROFIT!

I broke my clutch cable when I was in high school and my dad did just this to get it home.

[CJ]

start the car in first gear. I've done it many times.


I had my nut come off the end of my adjustable cable in my '92 right at davis and 183 in NRH. It was about 5 degrees outside and I was in shorts and a t-shirt walking around in the middle of the fucking intersection at 4am trying to find a fucking 5/16" nut.

I found it. Took about 45 minutes.

I've also blown up around 7 T5's. One time I raced a bike on 35, I was really into the boost and then all of a sudden my car popped out of third. I figured whatever, and put it in 5th and cruised for about 40 miles. I hit traffic on 820 in NRH and pushed the clutch in to drop down the third, and I felt the fork release all my gears into the pan and the whole transmission came apart, sounded like a wood chipper. That's when you are completely fucked. A clutch problem is easy.