"RIDING THE CLUTCH."

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

"RIDING THE CLUTCH."

A COMMON" FAULT.

Quite a number of the motorists' difficulties are innocently created, and there is probably no more common custom than "riding- the clutch." Half the drivers of the city'and particularly the inexperienced and nervous ones sit with their left foot resting lighting on the clutch. Even the experienced . driver will do it consciously or unconsciously. But this apparently innocuous habit is attended with results, at least troublesome and expensive, if not grave. However light the touch a foot resting on the clutch peddle throws undue strain and wear on the clutch disc lining, the clutch release bearing, the .clutch break _min^« aWal f ° rk - The writer has ?*<£? d the owner of a car who, after the rL h n f °? t , almost continually on the. peddle while driving, found that in six months' time the*peddle would not stay up. He Sought expert acMce Zi loam?d 11 that was practically worn through neddSm 11 COmplain that their «*** peddle rattles, and so they overcome the trouble by resting the foot on it. This is a primitive remedy and will about the serious consequences -e£ plained. Quite a simple cure is to put a rubber stop J on the •footboards. . ,