Does Your F-150 Have a Manual Transmission?

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Old 01-30-2013, 03:37 PM
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Exclamation Does Your F-150 Have a Manual Transmission?

If so then this story is for you

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Old 01-30-2013, 09:51 PM
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That's awesome ! Haha
 
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Old 01-31-2013, 10:39 AM
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my truck is safe! well, who'd wanna steal my franken rust bucket anyway...
 
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Old 01-31-2013, 08:35 PM
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This is why I liked driving stick. Although I'm going to be restoring my car again to drive, its a stick and no one knows what it is anyways...
 
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Old 02-01-2013, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 1997 lariat 4.6
my truck is safe! well, who'd wanna steal my franken rust bucket anyway...
Depends where you are. Your truck would bring in 300 -500 @ a salvage yard. Specially if your running converters.
 
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Old 02-01-2013, 12:14 PM
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Fail.

Hell, it is funny enough watching people that can run a clutch get in my '66 or '71.









Another guy wanted to borrow my '08, and then sheepishly declined when he saw that third pedal.





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Old 02-01-2013, 12:19 PM
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Depends where you are. Your truck would bring in 300 -500 @ a salvage yard. Specially if your running converters.
its about a $400 truck any way you slice it. hacked franken truck, no converters to increase value at scrap. Plus i think theyd hurt themselves in it. The neutral safety switch may or may not be removed so you can do a clutchless start in or out of gear...
 
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Old 02-05-2013, 02:20 PM
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@adrianspeeder: My dad installed a fifth wheel hitch into an early-00s Super Duty one time and I had the hardest time finding the gears in that ZF-6; they're so close together!
 
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Old 02-06-2013, 10:27 AM
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Really? I think they are still as far apart as an ole four speed, but what can ya do, ain't a mustang short throw shifter.

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Old 02-07-2013, 02:38 PM
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Mind you, at the time I had mostly driven a 95 Escort with shot bushings so the shifter went everywhere...
 
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That's awesome!
 
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I'd like to see people try to shift a non synchronized manual tranny hooked to a gasoline engine...double clutch!!
 



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