eli5: what is actually happening when a manual vehicle stalls?
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Engine’s need to spin at a minimum of say 500-1000 revolutions per minute to keep working. A clutch is used as a way to keep the engine running, but allows devices like cars or farm equipment to start and stop without the engine stopping. You have 3 plates. The flywheel, clutch disk and pressure plate. When you push the clutch pedal (lever, button however it’s set up) it takes pressure off the pressure plate and allows the 3 plates to move separately. When you stop pressing the clutch the 3 are pushed together and move whatever is being powered. If you have a running engine, and let the clutch grab hold too fast, or the thing you want to move doesn’t move the way you expect (brakes on, on a hill, something is broken) the engine can’t spin and it comes to a stop aka stalled out.
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