Hang on lets think about this, the clutch consists of 2 sections a fly wheel and a friction plate, one side is connected to the engine and the other to the gearbox.
When you press the clutch down it seperates these 2 plates, when itsa in nutral you havent selected a gear do its turning bugger all apart from teh shaft in the gear box.
How can this put more strain on the engine?
But then saying that driving the enine at too low revs puts strain on it, also driving at high revs puts strain on it, but no one thinks twice about doing it, hell driving up a hill puts more strain on teh engine, so does driving with al your seats in, who is gonna go and strip their cars?
As for brakes warping, its a well known fact that if you put the handbrake on when the dics are hot that part of the disc gets hotter, more so than the rets of the disc, and when you heat metal up and it cools down it warps, end of
[Edited by Lunner on 5/12/2005 3:03:27 PM]