Question on driving a manual

Using the clutch start cancel button to start the truck in neutral will do NO harm to anything. I frequently use the button when the truck is in neutral to warm it up. The clutch start cancel is used to start the truck in gear when off road. If you are in low range on a hill and cant roll backwards, push the button when you are in gear and hit the starter and go. This is hard on the starter but it is has gear reduction to help out.

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/of...ybody-ever-use-their-clutch-start-cancel.html

I guess you guys are not the only ones doing it. SO musnt be that bad. I didn't read it in my manual but Im sure its there, I actually heard it on the little CD that comes with the truck that explains some of the features(Yes I actually listened to it)

 

I don't see how it is bad, at least mechanically. It is just a bypass for the cluth pedal switch. I used to use this on my 93 when I was working on it and just needed to start it but still had the hood up, and also didn't want to get my grubby ass coveralls on the seat. The real function of it is for tricky hillstarts when you are at a dead stop and don't have three feet, usually in 4-low.

Operator-error wise, this could be a bad habit from a safety and insurance premium perspective.


edit: OK, it looks like at least three of us have explained to so far...

 

My procedure on ALL my manual transmission vehicles...

Take truck out of gear, push in clutch, start engine, release clutch, let warm, remove parking brake, go...

From everything from motorcycles to 1 tons...

This reduces the drag from clutch and cold gear oil to a minimum.

Howard

 

Explain how?

 

The best safety measure of your truck not rolling away IMO is to leave it in Gear, I always do. I don't trust the praking brake too much

 

You don't trust the PARKing brake to keep your vehicle PARKed?

 

Nope, I understand that is what it is meant for but I've seen them fail. Why not just make sure your not going to go anywhere and take that extra step of putting it in gear as a precaution?

 

Never have and never will...in gear AND parking brake on. Unless it is going to sit for a while, the parking brake off, out of gear, wheels chocked.

Having a parking brake lock up is a bad day...

So use the brake often, and it won't sieze.

Got a few stories about siezed parking brakes over the years, but it was the siezed parking brake in my FJ60 that made me get my first home shop press.

Howard

 

Nope. Standard operating procedure. Grew up in a hilly area. If I am facing downhill, I will actually put it in reverse when parked.

 

This

 

X2. Ive seen parking brakes fail several times.

 

How is putting it in reverse any different than putting it in first (other than the difference in gear ratio)? Doesn't the engine have just as much difficulty spinning in one direction as the other?

 

i was always told that first gear is the "strongest" gear..Always leave mine in first, unless on a hill. Then its first and parking brake.

 

Leave it on a hill , in first , and leave the parking brake off , see what happens

 

Bingo leave it in 1st gear push that button turn that key you might get a nice big hole for a new door.
I use it in the morning sometimes when I'm not going to leave (warm it up, clean my shoes or something). I don't have to get in, I reach over make sure the shifter is out of gear (moves left to right a few times) hit the button turn the key.
I thought it was for starting with a broken clutch or something. Then you have to know how to up & down shift without a clutch. Bring the rpm's up up shifting & let them drop when down shifting.

 

I had no idea that the clutch cancel button was for a lurching start if you don't want to roll back. Interesting. I guess it makes sense.

I thought it just for if you were feeling lazy...

 

someone can push the clutch in and put the right foot on the break to start or the parking break. I don't under stand why it would be used that way. I was thinking it was to push start (pop start) or something like that.

 

That's nonsense you have two breaks. hill start Why would anyone use it? Someone tell me why they would not use the breaks or hand break.