eli5: what is actually happening when a manual vehicle stalls?
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Ever ride a 10 speed. You’ll stall if you go up a hill in a high gear. Stalling means your leg wasn’t able to generate enough leverage to turn the wheel. Same with an engine, usually the gear was too high, or the engine didn’t have enough gas. If the engine doesn’t have enough torque to spin it’ll stall because it can’t maintain the 4 stroke cycle that’s needed to keep the engine running.
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