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How do clutchless? Drake's driving adventure of the day.
13 years ago
Figured this was worth making a journal about, normally im one to brag but in this instance given how easily I could have met with some serious shit.. Hey worth a mention!
So I had to go help a co-worker of mine pick up his old 94 Jetta and bring it back to work. I cant really explain why due to it being work related. We had to drive about 20 mins outta town up to where he lived to pick it up, only one problem, its clutch was GONE, like boom just broken right inside the housing.. and some how I was gonna have to drive this 20 mins back to work on the highway during late afternoon traffic... the perfect storm almost. I remember driving there thinking "please not today.. I kinda wanna LIVE"
So we get there and I am really unsure about this, I have driven a car clutchless once before but it was a 97 Pontiac Grand AM and was only around our back lot and for the lulz, so I knew the principle of how to do it.. But I had to go from a dead stop, at the side of a highway.. to even drive the car I had to kill the engine, put it in 1st gear then start the car so it would jerk and jump to life, lurching forward and taking off. From there I was left trying to speed match the gears, not an easy task as you really gotta know your car and have some magical clairvoyance on where one gear reaches its plateau and the next gear "starts" in my car.. maybe I could pull it off if I was desperate and didn't care about its transmission. But an unfamiliar Jetta? hah fuck me, so naturally I ground some gears trying to get her up to highway speeds, never put her past 4th gear as it was hard enough to judge the gears and their speeds as it was, at one start I went right from 1st to 4th cause I booted it too hard in 1st and got too much speed to mesh with the lower gears and lucked out getting her into 4th. As we got back to town I found myself going "oh fuck.. almost got this pulled off, just a bit more Drake!" I stop at one light RIGHT at the intersection that I have to turn, kill the engine and put her back into 1st and get ready for the advance signal so I can cross safely. I fire the car up, get a nice puff of white smoke out from under the hood and think "Okay over time, we are going for broke!" and just booted it back in 1st gear (was only about 500m from work at that point). So we pull in and I park her, tell my one co-worker who was following me that she smoke up at the light, we pop the hood and immediately notice that the upper rad hose going to the block blew clean off and that we had nothing left for fluid anywhere.. Lucky for us that happened right at the end of the trip or that could have been potentially nasty.. But in the end I felt pretty boss about the whole situation, even looked at some of my co-workers and said "I should get a damn medal for pulling a stunt like that!" Though later I found myself a bit irked by the fact that I had to even pull a stunt like that in the first place cause people were too cheap for a $80 tow truck ride.
But hey, score one for personal feats XD
So I had to go help a co-worker of mine pick up his old 94 Jetta and bring it back to work. I cant really explain why due to it being work related. We had to drive about 20 mins outta town up to where he lived to pick it up, only one problem, its clutch was GONE, like boom just broken right inside the housing.. and some how I was gonna have to drive this 20 mins back to work on the highway during late afternoon traffic... the perfect storm almost. I remember driving there thinking "please not today.. I kinda wanna LIVE"
So we get there and I am really unsure about this, I have driven a car clutchless once before but it was a 97 Pontiac Grand AM and was only around our back lot and for the lulz, so I knew the principle of how to do it.. But I had to go from a dead stop, at the side of a highway.. to even drive the car I had to kill the engine, put it in 1st gear then start the car so it would jerk and jump to life, lurching forward and taking off. From there I was left trying to speed match the gears, not an easy task as you really gotta know your car and have some magical clairvoyance on where one gear reaches its plateau and the next gear "starts" in my car.. maybe I could pull it off if I was desperate and didn't care about its transmission. But an unfamiliar Jetta? hah fuck me, so naturally I ground some gears trying to get her up to highway speeds, never put her past 4th gear as it was hard enough to judge the gears and their speeds as it was, at one start I went right from 1st to 4th cause I booted it too hard in 1st and got too much speed to mesh with the lower gears and lucked out getting her into 4th. As we got back to town I found myself going "oh fuck.. almost got this pulled off, just a bit more Drake!" I stop at one light RIGHT at the intersection that I have to turn, kill the engine and put her back into 1st and get ready for the advance signal so I can cross safely. I fire the car up, get a nice puff of white smoke out from under the hood and think "Okay over time, we are going for broke!" and just booted it back in 1st gear (was only about 500m from work at that point). So we pull in and I park her, tell my one co-worker who was following me that she smoke up at the light, we pop the hood and immediately notice that the upper rad hose going to the block blew clean off and that we had nothing left for fluid anywhere.. Lucky for us that happened right at the end of the trip or that could have been potentially nasty.. But in the end I felt pretty boss about the whole situation, even looked at some of my co-workers and said "I should get a damn medal for pulling a stunt like that!" Though later I found myself a bit irked by the fact that I had to even pull a stunt like that in the first place cause people were too cheap for a $80 tow truck ride.
But hey, score one for personal feats XD
I did drive my car for a while with a clutch disc that was plumb shot. You'd have to accelerate VERY carefully to keep from slipping it rather than gripping, and would take like 2 miles to get up to 60. Taking off on an incline.... that was undoable.. you had to have a "running start" to get up anything (thankfully, landscape is flat as a pancake here).