Clutch Wear
 

Hi,
Sorry for posting this newb question, but I have a question about clutch wear.

I have resently learned to drive stick but I am not totally perfect with it and I was wondering what is worse for my clutch. Is it worse for me to rev a bit to high while engaging it in first or is it better to have a bit too little gas and have it not stall but get bogged down or something for a sec. before engagement.
I know that obviousely it would be best to engage it properly but just in the meantime I was wondering which is least bad.

The reason I ask is that I thought it was OK for it to have too little gas if it was only a bit but twice recently when I have gotten out of the car I thought I have smeled something that I thought was the smell of the clutch burning. I recently(1 week ago) got rust spray but I think that the smell from that burning off would have stopped by now. I am not sure on the smell thogh, maybe it was conicidental.

Well sorry for the long post, basically does anyone know which is worse, too little or too much?
thnx.

in my own opinion...rev a bit high for engaging is a bit worse. because usually people doing that will just end up burning the clutch, so. i assume that a bit too little gas to engage is always better..but when it comes to stall. i perfer high rev engage!:>

i would say too little gas is better as well. And ull get the hang of driving standard in a few more days anyways.

I agree. Hopefully you'll get the hang of it in a few days, it isn't that hard

thnx for the replies, if i dont engage the clutch perfectly properly I usually put a bit too little gas rather than too much. I feel it stutter a tiny bit until I compensate with more gas. Would this explain why I think I smelled a little bit of a burnt clutch a couple times when I got out? Or do you think the smell is b/c of the oil spray? thnx.

I was searching on the net about the bit of a smell that might be my clutch burning and someone said,
"clutches almost alway "smell" when using them in reverse. I believe it's something to do with "graining" of the clutch/flywheel surface, and when you reverse it, it removes the granularities and burns them up, thus producing the smell."

I reverse into my parking spots at home and work so maybe this is why I can sometimes smell something? It was written about a WRX, but do u think it applies to Civics as well?