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Originally Posted by the other pc Highly unlikely it’s the trans. Manual transmissions are basically just boxes full of gears and oil (yeah, yeah there are synchros too but let’s stick to basics here) so when you break something it’s usually obvious, like grinding, snapping and shattering noises.
Hopefully it was just that the clutch was hot. Did you smell anything? Shuddering, sort of a side to side vibration of the driveline with some for/aft jerking, can be caused by a worn out or burned clutch, a warped flywheel or pressure plate or dead/missing trans mounts but those aren't likely to go away.
If any harm was done, it’s done but since the car’s working normally now there probably wasn’t any severe damage. I’d just keep driving it normally unless it starts acting up.
As for teaching her, you already got the hardest part done. Feeling the take-up is tough part and she’s got that. Now she just needs practice, in a deserted space of some kind.
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There was no smell that either of us could detect. The car felt fine today on the way to/from work, and I had a little fun on a windy freeway onramp too, so I guess everything is normal. Now that I said that it'll probably come back to bite me in the ***.
Thanks for the reassurance. She does want to continue learning, so I guess I can't stop teaching now. I did suggest to her that she might want to watch me drive for a while first, and then when she is able to predict what I'm going to do as I drive on the roads, she should be ready to continue the learning process. She agreed, so that will be the course of action in the meantime.
There was only one grinding incident during lesson #1, which was caused by trying to shift without the clutch, and then pushing the clutch in while still pulling on the gear lever.
