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Can you shift to neutral while full acceleration in a manual transmission?
It's a pure theoretical question and these are the conditions:
1. car is at the highest torque while accelerating (5000rpm gasoline or 3500rpm diesel)
2. car is in 2nd gear (still has force to accelerate the car, fast)
3. no clutch to be used
Does the manual transmission permit to pull the lever out of gear in these conditions? If yes, why?
- Gibbon1 6y agoYeah you can do it. Look up synchromesh and dog clutches. With a typical manual transmission all the gears are meshed and spin freely on the output shaft. A dog clutch is used to lock one gear to the output shaft while the rest just spin. Popping the transmission out of gear can be done but it's bad for it. You'll wear out the dog clutches and then it eventually won't stay in gear.
- emteycz 6y agoYes it's possible. I 'tried' (didn't intend to) it just a few months ago, albeit in third gear, same rpm, diesel.