Hi !

Tonight, for the first time in the life of my Fit,
I grind the 2nd gear... The shifter was not completly
in (from 1st to 2nd) and I smouthly let out the clutch...
That sound was orible, I jumped on the clutch and
everithing was fine... do you guys think I broke
something ??? the car feel as usual but jezzzzz
I can eard the grind sound in my head again and
again...

Please make me feel better, sorry for bad spelling.

Philippe

 

you didnt break anything bro lol. It was just letting you know hey get me in gear fool :P

 

This is my first m/t car so yes I was nervous !

Thanks for your fast reply, feelin better now

Philippe

 

make sure you check and readust your power-band. it might have gotten bumped up a little. just lift up the flex capacitor and make sure it alligned correctly.

 

yes im a smart ass

 

That can't spell....READJUST. sorry i had 2 get you back for being a smart ass.

 

Its going to happen more and more. One suggestion, DRIVE BETTER!!
Ive ground (does that fit right?) gears many times. Its life.

 

No problemo.

It's when it goes CLUNK and won't move that it's a problem.


Wait until you have to drive a manual transmission car WITHOUT a clutch. (clutch failed in my Porsche about 50 miles from home. I made it all the way home without a clutch. What fun!)

 

i dont understand. how did you make it home.

 

rev matching yo! rev matching!

 

Grinding the gears once will definitely not break anything. Now, if you did this every day for about a year, then yes, you would break something.

 

You can drive a stick-shift without the clutch, all you have to do is match the revolutions with the actual speed of the car, and to start from 0mph, you turn the car off and turn it on on 1st. Sounds really simple, but in real life you need a LOT of practice driving M/T, and you can really hurt the starter motor. But if you know how to do it, you can do it everyday without damaging anything....

 

Thinking back to my earlier life as field archeologist I recall one project in Oklahoma where the company was too cheap to fix one of their field vehicles (an ancient Suburban) that had a fried clutch. You had to rev it up to the right speed and then slam the shifter up to the next gear. No Fun At All. But that Suburban lasted thru the entire 6-month project. Of course, lots of folks got sore shoulders from driving it.

 

oh i get it. ive been driving a stick for most of my life and that sounds really sketchy to do everyday though.