I mean it reaches a steady speed and does not accelerate.daleadbull wrote:What do you mean stopped accelerating?theholycow wrote:I knew the clutch was completely hooked up when the car stopped accelerating (given that RPM is held constant). Your car may vary.
Car is going 0mph. I begin to engage clutch and pause while it's grabbing. Car is going 1mph. 2mph. 3mph. 4mph. 4mph. 4mph. Oh, it's not accelerating anymore, must be fully hooked up...now I can finish up my clutch work.
Of course, it takes longer to read that than for all of that to happen, and it's not a bunch of separate events; that's just the way to describe it. It's not like I was driving down the road at 4mph for a half mile trying to decide if the clutch is hooked up.
That's approximately right...though with a perfect steady-RPM launch (if you're into that sort of thing) you won't see any movement at the tach.Lets say you take the "feel" out of the equation. Just by looking at the tach alone, How do you know its fully hooked up, when the tach dips then comes back up again?