my girlfriend likes to sit on my shifter...is that bad?

 

When you are driving?

 

uh.. I do "yank" a lot to make sure the shift is in gear and not poping out like and sometime I just clutch and shift 1 thru 6 a lot to get it like working smoothly, otherwise sometime it just getting hard/sticky to shift and stuff.

 

have your girlfriend play with the radio knob instead. hahhaa
or.. have both of your girlfriend on the steering wheel.

 

So is that to say a weighted shift knob is more harmful than a lighter one, say like the CR?

 

this shift fork has excessive wear on the tip of the finger in the circled area.
this is the result of resting your hand on the shifter.




this is a picture of a used shift fork but is still in decent condition.

 

Get her a more appropriate toy.

 

Interesting. Thanks for the pictures jeggy.

Concerning the throw-out bearing, on my particular clutch there is a "dead" (soft) spot at the very top of pedal travel before it "feels" like I'm doing anything to the clutch. I have the bad habbit of resting my foot over the clutch, but it only depresses the clutch pedal not beyond that "soft" spot I described. Would someone like to confirm that this doesn't matter and that I'm still doing the damage described above, so I can get it the idea concrete head (and hopefully do something about it)?

 

that "soft" spot is freeplay. it's supposed to be there. roughly an inch of travel.
the dead pedal is only inches to the left of the clutch pedal. rest it on the dead pedal.

 

Once again, anyone?