Video: How a Clutch Works
(Image/Learn Engineering via YouTube)
While it may be easy to see why a manual-transmission vehicle needs a clutch, understanding exactly how it works is something else entirely.
But the gang at Learn Engineering is wicked-smart, and they put together a cool video that will help take the mystery out of how a clutch’s various components work in harmony to let your transmission do its job when you’re shifting gears.
A quick shout-out to the crew at Jalopnik who found and shared this video first.
What is a clutch? From the video: “In short, the clutch is a mechanism to disconnect the flow of power to the transmission without turning the engine off.”
See how it all works here:
Not one mention of the throw out bearing and its function in the clutch system. Bummer.
Brian, in the interest of time, some simple things are left to the students imagination.