How to treat a car clutch

Start of producers with the clutch depressed, yes or not, here comes a new installment on the life and miracles of the clutch, I know that is common among drivers. Is it okay to keep the vehicle stationary in gear and the clutch depressed prepared?

Short answer: yes it happens, especially if the detention is prolonged.

Not so short answer: Today we remember a bit what a clutch, how it works and what it means to keep the clutch depressed at a light, and we will see at a basic level, because this is not the place to delve into the matter nor is it for me to give more.

To begin, we define a pragmatic way as a separator clutch consists of two plates, one connected to the motor output (called "flywheel" or "flywheel") and the other (called "news"), which acts as a movable element. This separator transmits or no movement of the motor to the gearbox (gears) and, hence, the rest of the transmission up to the wheels. When we keep the pedal down, disconnect this connection. When we lift the left foot, connect both decks, transmitting motion engine gearbox.

As the flywheel and the press are attached and are separated while rotating, is mounted in between a friction disk which ensures that the two plates but no slipping grip and thus pass the motor movement to the gearbox without hardly losses. This disc is lined with a material that is particularly resistant to wear and heat, but not immortal but has a life that depend heavily on the use we make.

In fact, when we hear that someone "burning clutch", what you are doing is forcing the friction disk performance to calcine, that everything in life has a limit and while the friction disc is ready to rub (as its name suggests), if we put a greater than normal wear life will be shortened equally.

It would seem logical to think that if you keep the clutch pedal depressed to the max, the disconnect between the flywheel and the press would be complete, right? Well, experience tells us that this is not always the case, because there is a side that even with the clutch pedal fully depressed maintain minimal friction disk wears, and the other, because after all drivers tend to be human , and as such err.

This means that, when stopped at a light, without realizing we can be relaxing our leg and, with it, the force applied on the clutch pedal, so that this would start to rub, albeit in a barely perceptible and this would lead to increased wear disc to normal.

Moreover, while we press the clutch pedal are tightening the spring that allows the press to join the flywheel when lifting the foot. What need is there to punish this item? And finally, when we press the clutch pedal is a leading series of pushers pedal position to press the clutch to allow displacement. So, what need is there to punish the other element?

To summarize a bit what is said and giving a final answer to the question of escargot, neutral, if the detention is prolonged, and first prepared and clutch depressed, when it comes to a halt due to a momentary stop sign or yield the step, for example, as well we are ready to resume walking as soon as possible.

And now that I've given an answer not so short, I will shorten it even more with a brief but powerful phrase: In the car, when you have to step on a pedal is depressed, but never vice. And that goes for all three.

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