my story and my truck

Well i got a 93 f 150 XLT , straight 6 a few days ago, and i've been workin on it , and its a stick well i'm 16 and i've only driven a stick a few times... my dad said i cant borrow any of his vehicles i have to take the f150, he didnt understand going to work isnt the best way to learn to drive a stick... on my way to work... that is probably the scaredest i've ever been... i made that truck jump and stop so many times... i'm worried i'm gonna break something and then get chewed out for it... just needed to vent... but i made it to work and home safely

It all will come with more time driving. You would be suprised at the people that are my age that can not drive a standard shift vehicle. If there is any damage done, it would be in the clutch. Just remember it takes time to learn. You have a good start by making it safely back home.

when i try to find the gear when i'm driving or at a stop it is so.... hard .. even my friends who drive sticks.. say mine is way.. hard, and have trouble???????????

In time you'll be driving stick shift like the rest of us (who can drive manual trans). Just give it time and practice, your friends that can drive stick obviously haven't driven a diversity of them or driven them enough if they say yours if way hard.

I do hope someone taught you how to drive a stick or you picked it up somewhere. I say this because a friend of mine was sold a stick shift car by a sales man when my friend didn't know how to drive a stick shift, didn't even have the slightest clue on how to drive one. Long story short, he was taught a short lesson by the salesman on how to drive his newly purchased (used) car and when I went for a ride in his car for the first time it was horrendous. He did it all wrong, the only thing he didn't do was grind the gears or skip gears. It was whiplash city with the high rev peel offs, the redline shifting in all the gears, the near redline cruising, and the bogging of the engine after slowing down and not downshifting. He eventually learned/saw the right way to drive a stick after I showed him how it's done. Now he drives like a pro and his car thanks me. The point of this tale is I hope you were taught or showed how to drive a stick so you know what the driving is supposed to be like, otherwise the learning will go extremely slow.

good news... i can drive that truck like a champ, ...

Most people cant drive stick, I learned when I was 16. Then didnt drive stick for some time. Bought a stick and it came back with only a few jump stalls.

Good luck with the stick shift! Been driving them since I was 12. Some of my kids can't drive a stick. I taught those who developed the knack in an old F-150 to drive an old F-600 with a 4/2 split. Talk about terrror! But everybody needs to learn. A 13-speed in a big rig is actually easier. Take a pretty girl for a ride. A good performance with a manual tranny is impressive!

Good job on learning to drive the manual transmission. It is a skill that should be learned by all.