This isn't a problem, I'm just kind of curious if this is normal. My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben

My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben All forward gears are helical cut (which means they are cut on an angle) and have syncro rings to help guide the gears into place. Reverse gear is straight cut and has no synrco as the car makers don't think you need to engage reverse gear at speed. Although race gearboxes sometimes have all straight cut gears as they are stronger but it takes a lot more skill to change gears as the revs and the speed have to be right to make the gears change to the next higher speed gear. Cheers Mate.

Richard Dreyfuss < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message This isn't a problem, I'm just kind of curious if this is normal. My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben All forward gears are helical cut (which means they are cut on an angle) and have syncro rings to help guide the gears into place. Reverse gear is straight cut and has no synrco as the car makers don't think you need to engage reverse gear at speed. Although race gearboxes sometimes have all straight cut gears as they are stronger but it takes a lot more skill to change gears as the revs and the speed have to be right to make the gears change to the next higher speed gear. Cheers Mate. Used to call it double declutching when I learned to drive. On a three cylinder diesel truck made by trojan.

Richard Dreyfuss < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message This isn't a problem, I'm just kind of curious if this is normal. My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben All forward gears are helical cut (which means they are cut on an angle) and have syncro rings to help guide the gears into place. Reverse gear is straight cut and has no synrco as the car makers don't think you need to engage reverse gear at speed. Although race gearboxes sometimes have all straight cut gears as they are stronger but it takes a lot more skill to change gears as the revs and the speed have to be right to make the gears change to the next higher speed gear. Cheers Mate. The _style_ of gears has nothing to do with shifting ease as almost no modern transmissions actually move the gears to shift.  Most are of constant mesh design.  The helical gears are used because they are quieter in operation. Matt

Richard Dreyfuss < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message This isn't a problem, I'm just kind of curious if this is normal. My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben All forward gears are helical cut (which means they are cut on an angle) and have syncro rings to help guide the gears into place. Reverse gear is straight cut and has no synrco as the car makers don't think you need to engage reverse gear at speed. Although race gearboxes sometimes have all straight cut gears as they are stronger but it takes a lot more skill to change gears as the revs and the speed have to be right to make the gears change to the next higher speed gear. Cheers Mate. Used to call it double declutching when I learned to drive. On a three cylinder diesel truck made by trojan. We just called it double clutching.  I never heard the term double declutching.  Must be a regional thing. Matt

Richard Dreyfuss < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message This isn't a problem, I'm just kind of curious if this is normal. My short driveway is slightly sloped up to the house.  The car is stickshift, and I sometimes start rolling backwards slightly while pushing the clutch in and shifting into reverse.  If the car does start to move while I'm shifting, the gears grind.  Is this normal? I suppose there's no synchro for reverse, they probably didn't expect people to be moving at all when shifting into it.  I only ask because I never had this issue with my 01 Elantra. And to clarify my driving habits, on the occasions that this happens I'm rolling all of about 2 feet.  I'm not coasting downhill backwards for any distance with the clutch in. So, any thoughts? Ben All forward gears are helical cut (which means they are cut on an angle) and have syncro rings to help guide the gears into place. Reverse gear is straight cut and has no synrco as the car makers don't think you need to engage reverse gear at speed. Although race gearboxes sometimes have all straight cut gears as they are stronger but it takes a lot more skill to change gears as the revs and the speed have to be right to make the gears change to the next higher speed gear. Cheers Mate. Used to call it double declutching when I learned to drive. On a three cylinder diesel truck made by trojan. We just called it double clutching.  I never heard the term double declutching.  Must be a regional thing. Matt Could be, common in the UK. Google gives several thousand _link_s. Here is one from the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1011853 Double Declutching Are you ever cruising along in fifth and suddenly you come across an obstruction? You want to whizz past, but even changing down into fourth won't give you the power you need. What's needed is a quick change down into third or second gear. Doing this, however, runs a serious risk of damaging your gear box. This is where double declutching1 comes in. In ordinary declutching you use the clutch to change from a higher to a lower gear. It's what you do all the time. Double declutching is a little more elaborate:     * Push the clutch to the floor     * Put the gear lever into neutral     * Lift the clutch off the floor     * Give the accelerator a little blip to rev the engine up     * Push the clutch to the floor     * Put the gear lever into the desired gear     * Lift the clutch off the floor Why do it? It puts the gearbox into an intermediate state where it is better able to slip into the new gear, and matches the engine speed to the new speed required by the lower gear. The same process in reverse, but without the extra blip of the accelerator, is used to go up to a higher gear. You'd do this when you've passed an almost-stationary granny driver, for example.