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I hate having a manual transmission Mustang. I love driving my car and rowing the gears, but I broke my left foot and can't drive it. I've tried using my right foot to work the clutch and go, but thats so clunky, then to change gears. I haven't been able to drive it for about the last 3 weeks, and its looking like 3+ more weeks. I am now either driving a 1999 F350 with the 7.3 or the wife's 2016 Jetta GLI with DSG. I need to develope a hand operated clutch. I got the time.
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Sorry to hear that. That is one thing I'm afraid of, breaking my foot/leg and not being able to drive!

Hope you heal up and get back behind the wheel soon.
 

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But it will heal right and you'll be able to drive soon?
 
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I started my driving career broken. When I was 15, in 1987, I was hit by a car while riding a bicycle. Broke both bone in my lower left leg. Out for 13 months. I have pretty much always driving a manual trans. I am a truck driver by trade, but my work truck (2016 Freightliner Cascadia) is an automatic and my daily is a manual. Go figure
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Your title is so clickbait. Just relax and heal up. I broke my left ankle/leg and tore ligaments in November last year. I understand the struggle but you will be driving it again soon. Took me two months before I was able to drive a manual car again and it wasn't comfortable either.
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At least you got to have pins. My break was to close to the ankle to pin, so I had an external frame camping 6 vertical screws that held my leg together. Then after almost 6 months, they realized it stopped healing and I had to have a bone graft. That was September 10, 1987. The picture of my leg? That was September 2, 2019. The lower half has fused together. As for the foot, yeah, I know it will get better, but with beautiful weather, lots of time off work and a pandemic, I want to just get out and drive, but can't.
 

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I had rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder last spring. It sucked for several months. I did go around the block a few times shifting left handed. Donā€™t tell the wife.
 

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WOW, none of my X-Rays came back in red to show me, yes, you dropped a car on your foot.
 
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It was pulsating as they took the xray.
 

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I really liked the one where I dropped a C4 on my chest and benched pressed that bitch in the car four times, fuckin' fox.
 

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Hi - I had a meniscus tear last year and shifting the manual trannys in my GTO and Bullitt became quite painful. So, in early September I had an arthroscopy repair done but lost 6 weeks of driving while rehabbing the knee. I had about a month of driving before storing the cars for the winter and the pain while shifting was minimal. Unfortunately over the winter it has slowly gotten worse and this spring Iā€™m back to the same pain I had before the arthroscopy. The most recent x-Ray shows Iā€™m very very close to bone on bone. With this Covid-19 shut-down, elective surgeries such as knee replacements will likely be so backed up and I would be facing another summer of painful shifting. I noticed when walking down stairs if I lead with the left leg and keep the knee as straight as possible, the pain is minimal. A light bulb went off in this dusty attic of a brain I now have at age 78 and I decided to try an experiment. I moved the driving seat position back until my leg was completely extended when the clutch is fully engaged. Wallah - minimal discomfort. It feels awkward to drive the car with the seat so far back but itā€™s a price worth paying to be able drive again while experiencing minimal pain when shifting. I reset the memory feature for the seat so itā€™s always in the ideal position after I start the car. If things work out like I hope, Iā€™ll have the knee replaced over this coming winter and be ready in time for the next driving season... Bruce

P.S. Old age ainā€™t for sissies!
P.P.S. I very much prefer a manual tranny on my fun cars.
 
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AH FUCK! buy a T-56 and STFU.
 
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Driving a manual with my leg isnt a problem. Driving a manual with the foot is. Got to wear a bis ass ski boot looking brace, cant work the clutch.
 

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Driving a manual with my leg isnt a problem. Driving a manual with the foot is. Got to wear a bis ass ski boot looking brace, cant work the clutch.

Give it about 12 wks you'll be good, and stop braking your foot

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1st world problems. Just sit down heal up and get back out there.
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