Comments by "Mike Chiodetti" (@mikechiodetti4482) on "Engineering Explained"
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Thankyou for the info. How often did you wash the car especially the undercarriage to remove the snow/salt/sand to prevent the car from turning into a 5 year vehicle with undercarriage, frame and other panels, wheels, brakes, and steering components being massively corroded? I agree about charging at the end of your driving day instead of an early morning, non cooperative cold battery, going through a very cold charge. That's hard on a battery. While I like to drive fast, you probably would have had a better range if you kept the speed at 65 or 70 in the Summer and DEFINITELY slower on those snow and ice covered roads! In the winter on slick roads, speed is not of the essence! Also, trusting and testing the vehicle's safety equipment is not something you'd want to do, for your sake, the people around you, and you don't want to use up the cat's nine lives!
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I have a 6 speed manual trans in a 4.0 Liter Nissan Frontier. I have "skipped" gears MANY TIMES since I bought it in 2006 and with over 100,000 miles, it still has the original "non-slipping" clutch! Downshifting is a learning curve. At first, go with a closer gear you are now in, the vehicle will let you know if its not enough. Making a turn, if I'm below a certain speed, I know I can put the trans in neutral as I'm slowing down, let out the clutch, rev the engine up over a certain RPM, such as just over or around 2500, push in the clutch, gear down and let out the clutch. If I've done it right, the engine speed will match vehicle speed for that gear. If I've reved to much, the engine speed will be to high for the vehicle's speed, and there will be a slight "kick" forward. The clutch "disc" is the part that engages the transmission input shaft and the clutch pressure plate is mounted to the engine flywheel. The disc has "several" springs in it to cushion the transfer from the engine to the transmission to eliminate that "JOLT" that can happen with a person new to a clutch.
In all my vehicles that had manual transmissions, I've never damaged or destroyed a clutch. Have respect for the vehicle and its equipment, so it will take you where you want to go!
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