Eli5: How do standard transmissions work, specifically downshifting?
In: Engineering
A clutch is basically a disk brake that connects the engines’ shaft with the gear box. If you kick down the clutch pedal, you loosen the “brake” and decouple the rotation of the engine shaft from the drivetrain and have no torque applied to the gears, which allows you to pull them apart and set together another pair at different RPM. If you slowly take your foot off the clutch pedal, the disk brake in the clutch starts syncing the RPM of the engine with that of the selected gear by friction.
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