CLUTCH FAILED! HOW DO YOU DRIVE THE CAR? This lesson could save your life! Clutch cable & Hydraulic!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Every week I pick someone up with a failed clutch cable, often they're in a vulnerable position and I've always taught them how to get out of trouble. I decided to put this video together to help people out in future.
Big thanks to Nathan at RENZUKI for lending us the car to film this video.
Excellent advice. My dad taught me how to drive with no clutch when I was 14, I’ve had to use it once, and taught both my sisters this. Top video as per always
Thanks mate, appreciate that. I've had to use it twice in over 1m miles but I truly believe in knowing this skill.
@@Fighting_Torque oh yes
I had to drive my daily driver like this for 2 weeks before I could get it fixed. Easy as
I made it from Penrith to Charnock Richard services towing a caravan using this method that my grandad showed me. I agree, knowing how to get to safer place could save a life. Kudos for demonstrating this.
Thanks mate, and very impressive what you did!
Excellent advise I've added to do this a time or two myself. Some more safety videos would be brilliant. Great video as always.
Thanks mate, appreciate the feedback
You are good at these educational videos, I wish I’d known this that time my clutch packed in in a queue of traffic, I blocked the road for ages til someone stopped to help me push it onto the verge 🙈
It is an art to get them moving but with practice you can do it
Hi I'm Ady from John fotheringhans recovery. I often drive my truck this way. Yes I'm lazy cart be bothered to use the clutch but I also do it this way as I'm on my 2nd clutch and the trucks done 574k miles. I tell all my recoverys with broken clutch about this style off driving. I pleased you put it out there
Nice one Ady, seems to be a lost art! Glad it's not just me then pal
I'm a new subscriber to your channel so only just come across this.
It is something I learnt to do back in the 80s. My driving instructor taught me as I mentioned wanting to learn to double declutch to drive vintage vehicles, and it has been useful for a number of incidents but this is my favourite one.
Back about 13 years ago, I was with a newish girlfriend, Sue, holidaying in Norfolk and visiting my God-daughter and family. With all of us in the car in the middle of nowhere the clutch failed. I checked and found the clutch master cylinder pushrod had burst through the back of the clutch pedal. Stupid VAG design that uses a plastic clip to hold it together.
No worries, I just asked Sue to find me directions to a Halfords or similar, and I carried on driving with no clutch, restarting when needed using the starter motor. I bought a small tool kit, and a pack of assorted hose clamps from Halfords (the hose clamps were rubbish and I broke a lot of them). I was able to rebuild the back of the clutch pedal using the hose clamps and the leaf springs ripped out of my old spare wiper blades I had in the boot.
While I was doing that Sue was playing with the hose clips and found one that fitted on the third finger of her left hand. She called me out from the car foot well, and showed me her hand, saying "It fits!".
Me being able to calmly deal with the clutch issue, and fix the car at the road side was the deciding point for her.
The repair lasted the rest of our holiday, and the return trip to Manchester.
We celebrate out 10th wedding anniversary in June! ❤
Mate that gave me goosebumps, proper macgyver you are! Love stuff like that, thanks for sharing.
You never fail, as always you've been a joy to watch.
Thabks mate, that's a lovely thing to read
Awesome advice. Amount of people shocked when I did it. Practice everyone, could save your life 👊 keep it up dude 💪
Cheers my man
🤜🏼🤛🏽
I actually drove a high top transit from junction 5 on the M6 all the way to North Wales with no clutch.
The bugger snapped I'd only just picked it up from Milton Keynes.
Thing made it.
No crashes god knows how.
And a ton of grey hairs soon followed
But this does work.
Great video 👍👍
Nice one Jon, it's a lost art...it would seem!
@@Fighting_Torque Not many people actually know it.
Nice one for sharing it.
Let me know if you want them Ray Bans bud.
And they are real lol
No made in China anywhere to be seen 🤣🤣
This video help me when my clutch master cyclinder went on my car 2 days ago and managed to get my csr home
That's made my day to hear that Mark, really pleased it helped!
Hey pal. Love the techniques! Absolutely life saving stuff and surprising how many people don’t know how to do this.
Cheers buddy, hope you're well
Great technique for flat-landers, probably not going to work with the starter on a steep hill though, I learned double-declutching on old cars and tractors.
Good skills 👏
Nice technique thanks for sharing. Bit like emergency moving a car on the starter motor when the engine won't start. Have a great bank holiday weekend.
Exactly that, cheers pal, you too!
Fantastic advice Ben I'll try it later tonight thanks mate
Practice makes perfect
I've just realised what I do differently to you. I tend to blip it in neutral, then engage the gear as the revs drop back down. Your way's better in newer stuff that's not as free revving.
Yeah both will work mate
I learnt this technique the hard way many years ago in my first car when the clutch cable snapped on my metro I'd only be driving a couple of months. Awesome advice and brilliant video keep up the good work and looking forward to the next video 👍🏻
Thanks mate, Sunday night me and Malcolm will be back to our antics
Good advice, well worth knowing as could get you out of a horrible shituation. Had it recently myself in my lwb renault master when the slave cylinder failed big time on the motorway.
That's exactly the situation I'm talking about but it was easier to just say clutch failed ha ha. I had the same on our Primastar last year mate. Had to drive it 25 miles home with clutch pedal on the floor.
A great skill to know! Got me out of trouble a few times!
It seems not many people know it nowadays!
I knew you could change gears without a clutch but never knew how this has definitely helped me as I'm learning to drive after June thank you
Practice mate, it's not easy but with practice you can do it
Great and very helpful video.
Thanks mate, glad you liked it
Great advice, being of a certain age, I learnt this myself from having old cars that always broke down ! Thanks for wanting to keep us all safe. 👍🏽😎
I know ow what you mean mate, I seemed to always have snapped clutch cables when I was 17/18 😂
careful terminology, as you do still have a clutch friction plate ....... glad you mentioned the mechanically unsympathetic bit...... similar to old school truck driving, doubling the clutch, cannot fault you helping people getting themselves out of the shit
Yeah you're right Nick, spent ages wondering how to word it but for the layperson a clutch pedal on the floor is a nackard clutch...
Cheers for the comment mate.
Very good advice for people who dont know I already know that method about 6 years ago my mums clutch went on her Vauxhall corsa sxi she was stuck in calne in Wiltshire so I used that method to get her home to hullavington a small village in rural Wiltshire it worked perfectly keep the vids coming dude 🤙✌
I know the area well mate!
@@Fighting_Torque yea I grew up down that way and I was down that way when mums car died so I resued her with that clutch method sadly mum is no longer with us she passed 15 th of December 2021 will always miss her she was a legend go right out of her way to help anyone anyway cheers mate and keep the vids coming peace out ✌🤙
Bravo Sir!
Thanks buddy
Great video. People doing the technique would be a video in itself 😂. Did it while I was a mechanic many times. With so many automatic cars know that would be impossible but again videoing someone trying to do it would hilarious
Ha ha maybe a part 2 😂
I drove my recovery truck all the way from wales down to devon like this a couple years ago when the slave failed lol good bit of advice. But remember if the clutch is burnt out this technique dosent work but still good advise if you lose your clutch pedal
Good skills that man! But yeah you're right, this is only if you lose the pedal, I tried to say that a lot in the video. 🤙
@@Fighting_Torque haha tricks and tips you pick up through life. Yeah very informative video tho it's surprising how many people don't know this when they lose there clutch pedal. I try to explain this to some people when they lose there pedal and they look at me like I'm crackers 🤣🤣🤣
Great video once again. Good advice to get people out of trouble. Many years ago I had to bring a fully loaded 8 wheel tipper back to Lincoln from Whitwell stone quarry. The lorry was an AEC Mammoth Major with crash box, not much fun setting off from junction in gear and trying to start it made you feel bloody sea sick 🤮😂.
Ha ha mate that is mega! Definitely harder than a Twingo! Good skills that man!
Excellent advice ,didn't have a clue until I watched that so thank you 👍
No probs Gav
Good advice video. Doesn't get taught now. Hey you changed the channel name!
Sometimes I drive the transit without the clutch just because.
That's it mate, gotta keep on top of those skills!
Mate you are like the bear grills of motoring survival techniques !👍..I've had to do this in a lorry before when my clutch went on felixstowe docks
Ha ha cheers mate, love the comment
Such a useful trick, well worth learnin! Thanks for showin us the how to!
No probs mate
Hopefully this will go viral! Brilliant video as always but no Malcolm?
Cheers Richard, Malcs is back in our latest vid!
Excellent video. I'm going to practice this.
Happy to help!
ive got to 1 min so put car gear 1st start car put foot on gas as car moves lift a bit move gear to middle rev then push to 2nd it will drop in reapeat to 5th , to come dowm drop out 5th rev push gentle to 4th it will drop in if not rev again be gentle all the way to 2nd try not to stop coz if u do stop , turn off car now goto start and read again
This is really useful advice and really enjoy the content. Have you thought about doing a video talking about your experiences setting up as an independent operator? I’m looking to take the leap and set up independently and it’s a mine field particularly with insurance, o licence and weight.
I have thought about that mate yeah, a few people have asked, maybe one to put together for whilst I'm in the USA 🇺🇸
Me again..... This reminds me of the good old days and double-declutching. Anyway, I got released early cos they found my body so I went for a drive, I was going down a country lane and thought "I'm gonna do what my mate on UA-cam said" so I grabbed my gearstick and moved it out of drive, I then exit the car via the windscreen cos park is the next one to drive in my car, so I'm sliding up the road on my face and then have an engine roll over me, I think it was mine but I didn't have time to check the serial number, I get to my hands and knees and head for a farm about 1/4 of a mile up the road, the police drive by and ......... well I'm in hospital having craniofacial reconstruction, then they are taking me back to the dock next week to try and do me for curb crawling🤣
On a serious note folks, don't try and do this in a car with automatic transmission, there is no neeeeed.
Ha ha ha you crack me up 😂😂😂
@SleafordRecovery you keep setting em up and I will keep trying to keep em coming, Stay safe buddy.
Iv know how to do this for years had to use it in a work mini bus the slave cylinder had failed and had to use the stater as well to get going from lights and traffic but modern manual it's not possible to do this anymore from a stop as u have to push the clutch pedal down to start the car it's handy to know
Yeah you're right mate, newer cars make it harder to get yourself out of trouble
Awesome video as always dude
Thanks mate, was worried about this one so glad people like it
@@Fighting_Torque nah mate don't worry you always pick out good subjects and the quality is class, wish idve watched this before I had to learn this the hard way to be fair 😄
I practice with the works berlingos... :-)
Best way ..use someone else's car/van.
(That's what I did 😂)
I have this car 😂. Mines a 2013 model classed as red but more of a purple colour. If you need a demo car anytime you can come borrow my little Twingo ❤
Ha cheers Leanne but not sure I can pull off purple!
Evening mate question is most vehicles in the uk manual transmission or is there automatic transmission or they rare Roger from Sudbury Ontario Canada
I've got no data to back it up, but I would say 9 out of 10 cars in the UK are manual. It's a bit like Americans with the metric system, people think there's something a bit wrong about progressing to an easier way of doing things 😂
Yeah I'd say we are generally manual/stick biased still but a lot of newer cars are predominantly Auto
Practice it... Just not in a car you care about 😂 it is more difficult on modern cars because the throttle response is nowhere near as lively as older stuff.
Ha ha that's why I borrowed a car 😂
Wont work if the clutch is burnt out and you still have a clutch pedal which you should of said.
Fair one, I'm limited on characters mate and that's why I clearly state in the video 3 times "if your clutch pedal is on the floor" which is what I go to numerous times a week with folk in vulnerable positions. But yeah, can't please all the people all the time. 🤜🏼🤛🏽
Not sure how I missed this episode Ben, 🤔 great advice from yourself, I remember having to do this back in the late 80’s in my bright orange fiat Strada, hand built by robots la la la lay lo , sorry I still remember the advert. 🫶🫡
Ha I remember that advert too.