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[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

It’s not just the clutch. Rev up the engine too.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Now you killed it while lurching forward! Exciting!

While learning, don't touch the gas. Learn how to take the car out of neutral and into first using only the clutch. Then the whole process makes a lot more sense for when you need to do it faster.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No, you didn't "kill it", you gave it what it needs and then released the clutch. Slowly letting go till it bites doesn't make any sense, especially when going uphill. The clutch can take moving a tiny bit faster, the engine cannot take it moving a lot slower. If you lurch, you gave it a ton of gas, instead of keeping it at like 3k range max.

Basically, train on a level surface. Push in the clutch fully, break fully. Then let go of break, and push the gas in slightly. Learn how far you need to push it to keep it at 3k or so, depending on your vehicle. Then, the most important part. Gas doesn't make your vehicle go, the release of the clutch does. Once you figure out that it's the left leg that makes it "go" instead of the right, you'll get it every time, uphill or not. It only needs the tiny amount of initial gas to be good.

None of this "wait till the cars starts rolling and then you have a quarter of a milisecond to add gas before it dies on you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

The "don't touch the gas" thing is mostly just a learning exercise for people brand-new to driving stick to get a feel for where their clutch bites and how it slips, it's not the way to start a car rolling, certainly not on hills. Though anecdotally, I've driven at least a dozen manual transmission cars and trucks and only one lacked the torque to start and roll just idling - because we found out later that its timing jumped a tooth. So this line

None of this "wait till the cars starts rolling and then you have a quarter of a milisecond to add gas before it dies on you.

makes me suspect that there's something up with your car? Even if it can't start from idle, any car should be able roll in idle

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