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Old 12-14-2008, 11:29 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
slip shifting = when you are letting off the gas, apply pressure to the stick as though you're shifting gears. You'll feel it slip out of gear smoothly, and it won't damage anything.

As you're coasting, you kinda get a feel for when you have to put it back in gear and start accelerating again.. so you start to slowly rev the engine to the speed you'd need to smoothly put it back in gear, no grinds, no clutch use.
Actually, you're likely causing wear on the synchronizers.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The synchronizer has to change the momentum of the entire input shaft and clutch disk. Additionally, it can be abused by exposure to the momentum and power of the engine itself, which is what happens when attempts are made to select a gear without fully disengaging the clutch. This causes extra wear on the rings and sleeves, reducing their service life. When an experimenting driver tries to "match the revs" on a synchronized transmission and force it into gear without using the clutch, the synchronizer will make up for any discrepancy in RPM. The success in engaging the gear without clutching can deceive the driver into thinking that the RPM of the layshaft and transmission were actually exactly matched. Nevertheless, approximate "rev-matching" with clutching can decrease the general delta between layshaft and transmission and decrease synchro wear.

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