Show bad to use engine and clutch as brake the habit of using the engine and clutch as a brake when walting waiting for traffic to proceed uphill Is very common and very injurious to the car in general the driver leaves the car in low gear but rather than take his foot off the lie broke lie engages engage the clutch just enough to make inake the engine keep the car stationary tio nary in a case of this sort the sensible thing to lo do Is to keep one ine foot on the service brake find feed gas from tile the throttle letting in the clutch ivalie releasing the brake as 89 traffic starts moving |