Does anyone elses car jerk when they completely take their foot off the gas in first or second? In first if I take my foot off it will jerk and when I get back on the gas it will jerk, second same thing, but not as hard. Is it because the gears are so short for first and second? Perhaps there is something wrong with my tranny?

 

the ratios are short.

harder engine/tranny mounts help reduce the play, which in turn reduces the harshness of the jerk.

ultimately though the only way to get rid of them is to be smooth on the throttle.

jm2c
ken

 

2nd gear is very tall, imo. The best way to avoid the jerking is learning to be smooth on the throttle.

 

Yup. There's also the AWD that helps contribute to it. The Evo I drove a while ago did it to a lesser degree. It only took me 18 months, but now I'm pretty smooth on the throttle.

Jason

 

If you have your foot on the clutch, car in ANY gear and you release the clutch without applying the gas, the car will jerk in any gear. Even 5th.

In any other case, the car jerks, becuase of its torque. Gearing has little to do with it, unless you are trying to move the car from a complete stop in 3rd+.

 

I wasn't referring to dropping the clutch, I was talking about if you were going along, say in first and you took your foot off the gas. So it would be like, taking off from a stop, getting to like 15mph then just taking your foot off the gas.

 

That will depend on load and throttle plate position prior to you letting off the gas pedal. But generally, yes, it will be gerky. Thats just deceleration.

I think all cars do it. It just depends how stiff/soft the engine and tranny mounts are.

Gearing does play a role in it, but it is not THE reason why it jerks. It just does.

 

Cool thanks for the help guys, for a second there I thought I'd have to bust some SOA *** for this.

 

how do you exactly be smooth on the throttle?

 

The worse thing I used to do when sitting in traffic or just having to move slowly was letting off of the gas too quickly in 1st gear. After a while I stopped moving the throttle abruptly when the car was moving slow.

Jason