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Why would you do this?!?Maybe to limp the car home when the clutch hydraulics breaks.......If you MUST, you can let partly off the throttle in first (so you're not accelerating or decelerating) and slide the lever to neutral. Lower the revs to match what it should be for second gear, and then slide it into second. Continue this way up the gears. IF the revs are matched correctly, it will go into the next gear. If not, you'll just get a horrible grinding noise each time and tear up the gears. You CAN limp home this way if the clutch linkage (hydraulics) break, but to do it repeatedly will quickly kill the transmission. If you can't disengage the clutch, you'll also have to start the engine while it's in 1st gear to get rolling.

i own a repair shop and you can do it at a certain rpm if the engine or the transmission is not in a strain ,it has to be on good level ground,and everything has to be just right other wise your going to hear a bunch of grinding,and things aren't going to sound too good on it,but it can be done i have a Nissan sentra i can do it on and i can make it feel like an automatic,but i have been doing this a long time ,it takes practice,if you try it and fail you could loose a gear in the transmission ,good luck hope this helps.

i dont know why you would not want to use your clutch, but its not hard to do, or smart you just have to be at the right speed and or RPM...i can allready hear those poor gears screaming....sad

There is a reason why engineers developed the CLUTCH, and that is to "SAFELY" shift gears. If you don't want to use that "sooo precious energy of yours by using the clutch" then get an automatic. respect the car!

If I were you, I wouldn't try that on my car.The clutch is there to be pressed while shifting. So, better use it while it is there. If you really wanna try. Get rolling in the first gear. Slide the gear to nuetral and let your car get in a stable state (i.e. neither accelerating nor deaccelarating). At really low RPM (around 1500 to 2000) put the gear in second. If you hear a grindddddd, oops, you did it wrong... And if you try this a couple of more times, you are looking at the invitation to funeral of your transmission system.

you can do it, what you have to do is when you are moving let off of the gas and shift at the same time I don't recommend it but it can be don good luck

you gotta know the power band in your car when the power band goes down then you can shift in the next gear but if you dont know the shift points on your car then dont do it bc that tranny wont last for long

I do it all the time when I get lazy. It works fine and I don't have any loose teeth in the tranny.It does take a light hand and a sensitivity to the sound of the proper speed. I suppose you could use the tach, if it has one, but I prefer just listening. 1st you accelerate to a reasonable shift speed, back off the throttle and put pressure on the stick toward neutral. Don't pull hard. As the RPMs come down to match the speed of the gears it will slip right out.Now the hard part. You have to speed up the engine so the RPMs now match the gear speed in 2nd and put pressure on the stick toward 2nd gear. When the speeds match it will slip right in. If you are observant about the sound you can tell when it is about right. I usually tap the accelerator to overspeed it then catch is as it is dropping. Just don't pull hard and you won't be going back to pick up the pieces.Start by listening to the sound of the engine and/or the RPM in 2nd gear at the road speed you want to shift. When you get a feel for that try it. It does work easier on an old loose tranny.In the old days they called it double clutching. They didn't have syncronizers so they had to get the gears at the right speed by clutching it out of gear into neutral and speeding up the gears then clutching it into the next gear.

you can on older vehicles but you willl strip the gears if done to much regardless of the rpm. as for the new vehicles im not sure

There is no way you can shift gears without stepping on the clutch, unless your car has a messed up clutch or transmission. However there's a better way to shift and not lose power during the shift. It is called power shifting, all you do is when you are on the gas all the way step on the clutch at the same time with the gas pedal down and shift that way you feet doesn't leave the gas and you don't lose alot of power. However this technique requires you to be very precise.