cheapest & easiest way to tow a 944 15-20 miles?
05-15-2007 | 06:03 PM
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For 15-20 miles, you should be fine with the rear wheels on the ground.
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
944J - where are you located? There are lots of PCA members who tow their cars to the track -- maybe they can help you out...
-Z
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
944J - where are you located? There are lots of PCA members who tow their cars to the track -- maybe they can help you out...
-Z
05-15-2007 | 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Z-man
For 15-20 miles, you should be fine with the rear wheels on the ground.
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
-Z
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
-Z
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05-15-2007 | 07:24 PM
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Well the tranny oil heats up whether the car is running or not; on a manual transmission I'd expect it to be perfectly fine as long as the oil viscosity is appropriate. With a manual in neutral the differential will be spinning, yes, but (not sure) I don't think the gears are moving at all.
05-15-2007 | 07:29 PM
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Call 3 or 4 tow shops for estimates. And, if you have a friend with a truck or big car with a tow ball, ask Uhaul what their 2 and 4-wheel car carriers. Even better, if you can find one of Uhaul's old tow bars (triangular thing, attaches to f. bumper), to buy--eBay or Craigslist, --do it even cheaper--but drive slow. Uhaul discontinued those bars not because of failures on the road, but because people backed up with them, mangling them, sometimes whacking the towed car, too.
05-15-2007 | 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Z-man
For 15-20 miles, you should be fine with the rear wheels on the ground.
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
944J - where are you located? There are lots of PCA members who tow their cars to the track -- maybe they can help you out...
-Z
The issue is that supposedly, if you tow the car for a long distance (with the rear wheels on the ground), you can really heat up your tranny oil, since without the motor running, it is not circulating. I don't know how true that is.
944J - where are you located? There are lots of PCA members who tow their cars to the track -- maybe they can help you out...
-Z
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05-15-2007 | 08:34 PM
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whatever you do make sure the safety chains are on that thing, i just had my car roll off a uhaul trailer and if i ever tow it again i will check everything 5 times before driving away.
special tool will know what im talking about it rolled right down his driveway
special tool will know what im talking about it rolled right down his driveway
05-15-2007 | 08:38 PM
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Cheapest: take the bumpers off and flat tow using a tow bar attached to the bumper shocks. Certainly not the easiest way to trailer, though....