Shift into Neutral to save TO Bearing?

[John Lagnese]

I do shift into neutral on a long wait. The throw out bearing only is
engaged when the clutch is being held away from the flywheel. The clutch is
still on the splines of the output shaft.
John

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of David Ullrich
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:19 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Shift into Neutral to save TO Bearing?

I wanted to get other's opinions on this. When sitting at a stoplight,
should a manual tranie be shifted into neutral and the clutch released or
should it be left in 1st with the clutch FULLY depressed? I've never put my
cars into neutral at lights, but have also heard others say I am putting
extra wear on my throwout bearing causing premature wear. True? Untrue? A
real problem? I've never had to replace a TO bearing before a car needed a
full clutch job, but Ive only had one car that ever needed a new clutch and
that car had over 225,000 miles. All of my other cars have gone over 150,000
on the original clutch.

-- 
David G. Ullrich
Audiless for now
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