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Is there any way WHATSOEVER to make a clutch softer to press?

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Vic

Vic

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A stiff clutch is a good thing.

Plus, I've driven the LGT. The clutch isn't that hard to depress at all.
 
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Howard

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Originally posted by: CoolTech
whats with all these comments about being a wuss? it has nothing to do with that, if my leg hurts its not something I can control you idiots. Just because certain things hurt some people and do not hurt others is no reason to be intolerant or make stupid comments.
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It means your left leg is weak.
 
Platypus

Platypus

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I've driven that car and it's certainly much easier to depress than my WRX is.. How new is the car (to you)?

Are you engaging it straight on with your foot lined up with the pedal or doing a 'side press' or something?
 
FoBoT

FoBoT

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The first automatic was invented in 1904 by the Sturtevant brothers of Boston. It provided two forward speeds that were engaged and disengaged by the action of centrifugal weights without need for a foot-operated clutch. As engine speed increased, the weights swung out to engage bands -- first the low-gear band and then the high-gear band. The unit failed because the weights often flew apart.

The next significant attempt at an automatic transmission was by Reo in 1934. Called the Reo Self-Shifter, it was actually two transmissions connected in series. For ordinary driving, one unit upshifted itself automatically in relation to car speed through the engagement of a centrifugal multiple-disc clutch -- much the same idea used by the Sturtevants. The second transmission was shifted manually and was used only when a lower gear was needed.

In 1937, Buick and Oldsmobile came out with a transmission called the Automatic Safety Transmission. it had a conventionally clutch for shifting the transmission into forward or reverse. Once in forward, the transmission shifted automatically by using two hydraulically operated planetary units -- one for LOW gear and one for DRIVE. The unit was the forerunner of the GM Hydra-Matic, which was born in 1938.

The Hydra-Matic consisted of three planetary gearsets that were operated hydraulically. A fluid coupling was used to connect the engine and transmission. Credit for perfecting the fluid coupling goes to Chrysler, which developed the concept in 1937. However, Chrysler did not make use of it until 1941, when the Chrysler Fluid Drive transmission was introduced. This was not an automatic unit, but a standard transmission with a fluid coupling, not a clutch.

By 1948, the automatic transmission had evolved into the hydraulic torque converter that we know today coupled to a planetary geartrain. The first to use the converter was Buick. The '48 Buick Dynaflow, as it was called, was the model for present-day automatic transmissions. Others soon followed with similar units -- Chevrolet Powerglide, Fordomatic and Merc-O-Matic in 1950; and the Chrysler M-6 Torque Converter Automatic in 1951.
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Minjin

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Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
I think the only way to make the clutch easier to press is with a lightweight flywheel.
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The weight of the flywheel has no bearing whatsoever on the effort it takes to depress the clutch pedal.

Mark

 
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lxskllr

lxskllr

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He's kind of right though. Those girls never drove a truck that would shatter your ankle if your foot slipped off the clutch(a very real possibility since the rubber pad was gone). Not all clutches were created equally.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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this is probably the best noob necro I have ever seen! Coming right in with the haymakers!
 
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MtnMan

MtnMan

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TomKazansky said:
My friend's sister drives an integra with a stage 3 clutch and she never complains about how hard it is.

My friend though, complains about it all the time =P.
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this triggers so many unclean thoughts...

PS but I have never heard a woman complain about "how hard" it is... ;)
 
MtnMan

MtnMan

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frank7777 said:
some cluthes are much harder than others you complete moron!
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I have driven a catalog of straight drives, from my current ride, a Jetta 5 speed, to a 65,000 GVW fire department tanker, both slave clutches and direct linkage clutches, and many things in between including tractors with 2 stage clutches. I've never driven one I felt the clutch was too stiff, or even just stiff. It's a clutch.
 
MtnMan

MtnMan

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WelshBloke said:
Is it possible to have issues about being feeble enough not to be able to operate the clutch in a car without discomfort?
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If you have reached the point you are too feeble to operate a clutch, what the fuck are you doing behind the wheel of a 4,000 pound projectile, other than driving into the pharmacy to pickup your prescriptions.
 
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