please desperate help with stick shift?

Question

Please i need all the help and advice...ive been driving an automatic for a year so i want to start driving a stick 240sx so please i need help from how to drive....to what not to do the car that can break it

Answer 1

When you get serious about learning how, get out somewhere where you can practice without rolling down a hill backwards or actually putting yourself or someone else into danger. I leaned in the 600 plus acre pasture behind our house. If you don't have a cow-pasture at your disposal, at very least get into a big empty parking lot. You need to get a feel for how the clutch reacts when you start to let it out. You need to practice a lot so you can get a feel for how much gas is required to keep the vehicle from stalling out. GIVE YOURSELF TIME and SPACE to learn. After you have practiced just getting around on a level surface, you must practice hills...especially stopping and starting on an incline, before you take it out onto the road. If you get onto the road with other vehicles before you have a sense of touch with the machine, you most surely will break it--probably by stalling out in traffic and getting run over or by failing to control it and running into someone else.
basics -
The clutch is the pedal on the left. The brake is in the middle. The accelerator pedal in on the right.
Get someone to coach you through where the gears are, and when to use each one.
The basics- the lower the gear, the slower you go. As you increase your speed, you shift "up." You start from a full stop in one of the lowest, and you do all your highway driving, or nearly all of it, in one of the highest available.

Typically, you shift when you approach the top of that gear's range. You can hear the engine beginning to rev - it feels and sounds louder when you need to shift up. To shift, let up on the accelerator, push in the clutch, and move the shift lever. Depending on the configuration, you'll need to learn to feel where the stick should go to quite literally slip from one gear to the next. It is a physical action, and like slipping a key into a lock.

Things you can do wrong -
grinding gears. You'll know it when you hear it. Practice until you can shift smoothly.
stalling out. This is having the vehicle engine die, often after a couple of awful jerks. You are driving too slowly for the gear you are in. Learn to shift down so that your speed matches your gear. This is dangerous in traffic because you probably need to come to a stop and start the engine again. As you get more skill, you can learn to pop the clutch to start while the vehicle is still rolling. Popping the clutch is actually sort of fun. I learned to do this when we had a bad battery.

Seriously, this is a lot of stuff. Get a buddy who can already drive a stick, and go to a big empty lot, and be patient with yourself. Drive safely.
Love, Mom

Answer 2

Don't push the clutch ALL the way down. It has a "clutch brake" when you drop it all the way it stops the gears from moving completely which, when you do that enough you will need to get the clutch rebuilt or replaced.

Play with it a few times. You'll get a feel for it (Country roads are best)

Answer 3

the ssite that allgrowdup gave you is a really good one apply it ok its not that hard as some people seem to beleive from your question it sounds like you drove a stick in the past its like riding a bike you never forget good luck with the car also

Answer 4

Don't change gear without the clutch!

Answer 5

Here, this site helped me..

http://www.whtc.com/Shared/Auto/tutorials/learnstick.html