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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Feb 21 06:49:51 2026, in response to Re: Can you drive a stickshift vehicle?, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 21 02:20:56 2026. Did you have one of those 1970s cars with heavy clutches? The clutch pedal got a lot easier to push down over the years.There's something called a centrifugal clutch. The clutch plate has weights along radii in a circular pattern. They are pushed towards the enter by springs. As the clutch rotates faster because the car is moving faster, the weights move outward. This increases its moment of inertia, making it more difficult to move it - i.e. more difficult to push down on the pedal. OTOH, when the engine is idling or the accelerator is released, weights are pushed inward by the springs and the moment of inertia is a lot less. This makes it easier to push down on the pedal. It's been around since at least the 1950's. My '54 Ford had one. |
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