I bought a Focus ST which has a 6-speed manual for a daily driver to keep the miles off my F350. The clutch for the ST is right where the left side of the F350's brake pedal is. I drove the F350 for the first time in a two weeks and holy cow it stops quick when I mash the brake pedal with my left foot.
Posts: 11816 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007
Originally posted by phydough: Take a hacksaw and cut off the left half of the pedal.
See, simple solution for a multi thousand dollar vehicle using a $5 tool.
Is that one of those life hacks I've read about on the internet?
The first time it happened I really thought something was seriously wrong with the truck. It took me a few seconds to figure out it was an iD10T error.
Posts: 11816 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007
Remember back in the old days when the brake pedal was the same width, regardless of transmission choice. Then GM started putting a double width brake pedal on auto vehicles that said "disc brakes".
Young guys won't have a clue what I'm talking about.
I laugh whenever I drive a "modern" car or small truck with a manual transmission. (by modern I mean only 20 years old ) Laugh that I can use the clutch without picking the heel of my foot up off the floor. The things I learned to drive a manual on, I had to lift my leg so high to get on the clutch that I had to squeeze my knee between the door and the giant steering wheel.
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Originally posted by phydough: Oh....double clutching. Fun times.
A friend in college let me drive his 60's Land Rover after I had mastered by Ford Cortina and roommate's VW bug. Once I learned to double clutch that tight patterned transmission, there wasn't a manual I couldn't figure out.
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Posts: 3673 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008
Look up gas pedal spacer for the ST, and change the clutch spring (steeda) as it likely has a progressive spring. These two things will help you tremendously transfer back and forth between vehicles. The ST takes to mild mods very well.
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Posts: 13046 | Location: Down South | Registered: January 16, 2010
Good to know. I have the Steeda clutch pedal spring, but haven't installed it yet. I was going to do it when I did the exhaust and CAI, but I'll just go ahead and install it first.
The clutch on the ST is weird, but weirder yet is the throttle. In my previous, old-fashioned, non-computer controlled, non-fly-by-wire, manual transmission cars, if I pushed the clutch pedal and let off the gas the engine rpm would drop immediately. Not the ST. Push the clutch pedal, let off the throttle, the rpms climb a couple hundred, hang there a few seconds, then gradually drop. A few times they've risen a couple thousand to 5,000. It really makes smooth up shifts tricky and engine braking on down shifts don't slow the car quickly.
Posts: 11816 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007
) Laugh that I can use the clutch without picking the heel of my foot up off the floor. The things I learned to drive a manual on, I had to lift my leg so high to get on the clutch that I had to squeeze my knee between the door and the giant steering wheel.
