Regardless of whether
you drive a manual or automatic car, you rely on gears to increase and decrease
your speed and to help the engine to perform at the optimum level and to
negotiate the road conditions. The gears are selected using a clutch, or
transmission system, that you either press with your foot in a manual car or
allow the engine to work with the various transmission parts in an automatic car.
In the case of manual
cars you don’t see many of the transmission parts without taking the clutch –
and car – to pieces. The parts that you do get to see most often are the clutch
pedal and the gear lever that work as a pair to help you to select the gears.
As all drivers know,
you need to release the accelerator and to press the clutch pedal down; and
while doing this you move the gear lever to select the chosen gear. From here
you slowly release the clutch pedal and get back on the accelerator to press
on.
A damaged clutch can be
very dangerous for the car as it means that there is nothing to stop the engine
and transmission parts from coming into contact as you go to change gear.
In some cases it may
even be that you are unable to change gear, and you’ll need to seek
professional assistance with new clutch kits, bearings, dampers and cables, (all of which can be bought here
at Euro Car Parts online or in our branches).
Regardless of whether you drive a manual or automatic car, you
rely on gears to increase and decrease your speed and to help the engine to
perform at the optimum level and to negotiate the road conditions. The gears
are selected using a clutch, or transmission system, that you either press with
your foot in a manual car or allow the engine to work with the various transmission parts in an automatic car.
In the case of manual cars you don’t see many of the
transmission parts without taking the clutch – and car – to pieces. The parts
that you do get to see most often are the clutch pedal and the gear lever that
work as a pair to help you to select the gears.
As all drivers know, you need to release the accelerator and to
press the clutch pedal down; and while doing this you move the gear lever to
select the chosen gear. From here you slowly release the clutch pedal and get
back on the accelerator to press on.
A damaged clutch can be very dangerous for the car as it means
that there is nothing to stop the engine and transmission parts from coming
into contact as you go to change gear.
In some cases it may even be that you are unable to change gear,
and you’ll need to seek professional assistance with new clutch kits, bearings, dampers and cables, (all of which can be bought here
at Euro Car Parts online or in our branches).
Your transmission system consists of a number of quite large and
crucial components that all work together to adjust the speed of the engine and
the gear that you have selected.
These parts include the clutch itself – which is a key car part
and not just a pedal as many believe – the gearbox, flywheel, prop shaft in the case
of rear-wheel drive vehicles, differential and drive shafts.
When you press down the clutch pedal to allow you to change
gear, the flywheel stops receiving power from the engine. It works this way so
that the engine parts that are moving at several thousand revolutions per
minute (RPM), aren’t damaged by the changing gears.
All of this happens in a split second and this is the point
where the driver can move the gear lever into place to choose between the
various gears (usually one to five, but there are cars with six forward gears
and reverse).
Having chosen the gear the driver can then lift their foot off
the clutch pedal and this re-engages the flywheel with the engine so that it
can start to receive power again so that car can continue at the same speed. So
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