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Tips for teaching a women to drive manual?

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Liam.Butler
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I'm having a hard time teaching my girlfriend to drive stick, she has already mastered sandwiches and house cleaning. In serious though any tips? I am extremely patient but that does not seem to help.
Aug 30 2011 6:56PM
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shintastic48
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Does a clutch work diffenetly in a Rotary engine? I would think not. I took apart a RX7 before and found no such thing in the clutch/drivetrain area.
Sep 12 2011 7:10PM
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tronned
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good thing youre a trained professional on this matter. I guess ill take youre word for it. Ill let my 4 years of schooling and factory training go out the window. Thats a real weight off my shoulders.


Use your brain.... Clutch release bearings are a common wearing item and often need replacement prior to a clutch service. At the point that the bearing fails or chatters, the customers are normally ready to eat the cost of replacing a clutch because its only an additional hour of labour to replace the clutch at this point since the transmission bell housing has been removed.

I see this often at work, pretty much every month i see this exact situation play out...... but youre right, i should listen to an 18 year old kid. Thanks for clearing things up for me.
Sep 12 2011 7:13PM
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shintastic48
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I didn't say you were wrong. I was just saying that I have been giving most of my information on what I know about transmissions. And your 4 years of schooling is fantastic. But you thinking I don't know equally as much as you just because i'm an 18 year old "kid" who is going to college for engineering and has been racing since the age of 9 and has been working on my own shit since I was 12. SMH.
Sep 12 2011 7:40PM
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tronned
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the fact of the matter is you dont know shit about cars. Im 25 and i dont know shit about cars either, I know more than 99 percent of the population about cars, but there is still that 1 percent that know more than you or I put together. If you have ever met a truly gifted mechanic you understand that you dont know a damn thing about cars really, I work with 3 people that destroy me on car knowledge and working talents but it takes time to learn all the smaller points of wrenching on cars.

I realize you love cars and racing but its absurd that you think you could just drop into my position at work and prosper. I cant prove to you this, but if you have any sort of common sense you will most likely realize you dont even have any clue how most sensors/electrical systems on cars work and realize you do not have a full set of tools to do what i do.

Thats like saying because you have done math your entire life you can be an certified accountant.
Sep 12 2011 7:56PM
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grnwd
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just fake a headache and make her drive home from somewhere. that'll make her learn
Sep 12 2011 8:33PM
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Liam.Butler
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So easy, the doo-dad isn't attached to the thingy.
Sep 12 2011 8:46PM
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shintastic48
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This is somewhat false. Say I got a job as a chef. And I worked as a chef for 30 years but never went to college or anything for it. Your saying that that wouldn't make you a "certified chef" but in reality that person probably knows more than most younger people who would have gone to college or whatever type of school for it.
Sep 12 2011 9:12PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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^^this guy is in love with himself
Sep 12 2011 9:22PM
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Liam.Butler
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No he is in a skilled trade, people think it's an easy job when it really is not.
Sep 12 2011 9:35PM
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Fucktown
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If you worked as a line chef (entry level position quite often reserved for those with no experience/schooling and alot of times no interest in advancing through the ranks to another job in the food service industry) for 30 years, you probably wouldnt be as qualified to be a real chef as someone who went to culinary arts college.
Sep 12 2011 9:56PM
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tronned
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This may or may not hold some light but youre 18 years old and have never done any professional work on a car. Thats alot different than being a cook for 30 years exp. You have 6 years of exp in automotive, I have around 12 with schooling and factory training. Its quite safe to say, Im not going out on a limb here saying that there is a "slim chance" I may know a "little bit" more about cars than yourself... make sense? Im not really willing to argue with you further, this is exactly why i commented in that other thread about how you "think" you know cars inside and out, but youre just an 18 year old kid who doesnt know a thing more about cars at a mechanical level than just an avid petrol head car tuner. There is a few levels of car knowledge that can be had by people and there is a range of what is known by average joe, and you are above that level but im not going to sit idely by while an 18 year old boy racer who doesnt know shit about a transmission and how it can be driven for minimal wear attempt to school me on "what he knows about transmissions". By no stretch of the imagination am i saying I am a car god but im not going to let you call me out in a thread without me laying down some words for you. I am not the best mechanic out there but i learn daily at work and challenge situations that expand my knowledge base.

You surely know more about driving cars than myself, and im not afraid to admit that. I have never taken a serious racing course.
Sep 12 2011 10:18PM
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shintastic48
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So learning from mecanics that have been working on race cars for 20+ years doesn't count as "official schooling?"
Sep 13 2011 12:51AM
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tronned
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you simply dont understand and will never understand till you mature a bit. Youre just a 18 year old kid who thinks he knows everything but doesnt realize you know sweet fuck all. The fact you constantly argue this point of how you know so much about cars with no formal training because you had a 13b out of a car is 100 percent proof that you really have no idea when it comes to cars and what is involved in some of the more intimate issues... not having someone to hold your hand while you use your fisher price tools on a car is a scary thought, no? Good luck troubleshooting electrical faults in a car or finding chasis noises/drive train noises or how about some air conditioning problems? How about alignments? how communication networking errors? How about how to even determine and measure pulse width modulation and communication signals between control modules on a car? What about could even explain how a cars electronic system works as a whole? Or what the difference between air mass and speed density is? How about even a charging system test? I would bet you barely know how to hold a multimeter, let alone use one properly. I have a feeling you have barely even turned a wrench quite honestly. All bark with no bite. Take your 18 boy racer shit and hit the road. You dont realize how much you look like a fool to someone with even a slight amount of car savy. Now you can drive off into the sunset with the mazdaspeed 3 your parents bought you.
Sep 13 2011 1:11AM
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shintastic48
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Yeah i don't know jack shit about the non important stuff on a race car like air conditioning. no need really for me to know that since I work on race cars. Lol, fischer price tools? Taking a 13B rotary engine completely apart completely by yourself does not take Fisher price tools. Noises in the transmission or engine I certainly can distinguish. As a race car driver you have to know those noises in order to decipher what is wrong with the car if it encounters any problems. Maybe I do come across as someone who doesn't know much than say someone like you. But, I guarantee you 90% of this website doesn't know shit compared to either of us as they are all 12 and under.  And as for your last statement. I payed for 2/3's of my MazdaSpeed 3. I payed for half of my dads E46 M3. So your last statement is completely useless as of now. I've had a job working electricals on machines that braze radiator parts for Denso and Calsonic. So I think I would be able to figure out the electrics on a car fairly easily.
Sep 13 2011 1:25AM
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yuck
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telling her that will have horrible consequences on your sex life.
Sep 13 2011 7:58AM
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Huck_Norris
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This man knows and has respect for his trade.  His strength is his identification that no matter what he knows, there's so much more to learn.   

Shin is the opposite.  Doens't know shit, thinks he does and is even being a huge douche about it when someone points it out.  DUDE.  LET IT GO.  Saying you're not a mechanic doens't make you any less of a racer, get the fuck over yourself already. 

Sep 13 2011 9:44AM
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Huck_Norris
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God I wish there was a note in there that said "give it up pedal masher"
Sep 13 2011 9:45AM
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shintastic48
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I'll give it up. But i still stand by everything I've said.
Sep 13 2011 11:21AM
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Mr.Huck
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There are some hilarious responses in this thread, but this is the best practical suggestion. Gee, you never cease to amaze.

OP go out and borrow a dirtbike that is small enough that your girl friend won't be able to hurt herself too bad when she dumps it. Must NOT have autoclutch. Get a lawn chair, a video camera and some cool beverages. Park your ass in the chair, drink the beverages and video the carnage. Let her tool around the field until she gets the concept. Post video.
Sep 13 2011 11:37AM
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J.M
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cool triple post bro!!!!!

i was only talking about the clutch in that situation. i wasnt talking about anything else smart ass.

Sep 13 2011 4:40PM
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jibmeisterflex
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My brother was teaching his girlfriend in our turbo jetta and she got the revs really high then got scared, dumped the clutch and floored it was fucking hilarious how shaken up she was
Sep 13 2011 7:13PM
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comeatmebro
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turbo jetta...must be fast.
Sep 13 2011 7:18PM
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shintastic48
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Not as fast as VTec :D
Sep 13 2011 7:20PM
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J.M
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maaaaayyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeee
Sep 13 2011 9:31PM
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jibmeisterflex
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Not saying it's that fast but it is faster than her mini van you don't have to be an ass
Sep 14 2011 4:47PM
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