Why is it difficult to shift gears in a car?

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LaValerie
07/29/25 2:52pm
The reason why it is difficult to shift gears in a car is that the clutch pedal is not fully depressed, and the gear teeth are not properly aligned. Here is an introduction to the car clutch: 1. There is a very important device inside the structure of the transmission, which is the "synchronizer". Without the synchronizer, forcing a slowly rotating gear into a high-speed rotating gear will definitely cause gear grinding. 2. The role of the synchronizer is to increase the speed of the gear to be shifted to match the speed of the output gear when shifting occurs, so that there will be no gear grinding during shifting. This makes it easy to engage the gear.
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