2006-08-09 06:23:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Its not going to do it much good - you'll wear it down be doing that.
2006-08-09 06:26:42 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it bad? Not Really.
Can you do it a lot and not hurt anything? Yes.
Can you do it a whole lot and hurt something? Eventually, but you'll have more patience than me..
When you change gears in a car, you're moving the "selector forks" to different positions in the gear train. These, and most of the other parts in a manual transmission, are lubricated by oil that is splashed around inside the transfer case by the rotating parts. If you did this a whole lot (many many thousands of times) very quickly, you could possibly cause wear on these unlubricated parts. I expect that you would probably wear out some the bushings in the shifter mechanism, and possibly your elbow and shoulder joints long before you damaged anything internal in the transmission.
2006-08-09 06:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by EjayHire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the car is not moving and you put it into gear it will stall and seriously mash your gear cogs in the process. Either that or it may move off if you time it well but you'll still ruin the gears. Even if the engine is off it will damage the gears if moved without the clutch because you'll be forcing the cogs into each other
2006-08-09 06:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by The Shadow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! If the car is in gear with the engine running and the clutch is out then it will want to move forwards, it's impossible to sit in a stationary car in the situation you describe with the engine running.
2006-08-09 06:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very bad, your going to wear out the cogs of the gears.
2006-08-09 06:27:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it isn't running, I wouldn't think it would be a bad thing. If it is, I could imagine it would be. All the moving parts in there and the grinding, you don't want to burn up the Transmission.
2006-08-09 06:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by Joshua R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't do any harm when the gears are not moving there is no real friction in between the parts of the transmisson . That's why you can do that while it's standing still but not while driving!!!
2006-08-09 06:30:25 · answer #7 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the clutch has gone. take it to your local garage to be checked out. if it wont move. join the aa wait two days and you can get it recovered for the price of joining.
2006-08-11 02:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by shazza_smurf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its said you should not do that but the clutch is only connected when the engine is running.
2006-08-09 08:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by zd_sr1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, It's really bad!
2006-08-09 06:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by Emma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋