Re: Towing a T3

["Luis A. Pieretti" <lapnsm@centraltx.net>]

Yeaahhh!!!!!  or stock vanagon 2.0 engine into a type 3?!!!!

Kenik Hassel wrote:

> Guys, quit whimpering about towing your type 3.  Trust me, I know better
> than probably everyone on this whole damn news list what it's like to tow a
> type 3.  My fastback was towed via bumper bar from California to North
> Carolina through the South (over 3000 miles I might add) back in 1980.
> Then after various moves the car was towed from Texas to Georgia.  Then
> from Georgia to Kentucky.  Then from Kentucky back to California.  THEN
> from California to sunny Washington.  The moral of this story?  Towing a
> Type 3 will harm it no way WHATSOEVER.  The damn joints on the car have
> never been replaced!  The car has over 300,000 documented miles, my dad
> being the original owner, and I just sank some serious bucks into it
> restoring it.  I didn't even touch anything to do with rolling wear and
> tear because there was nothing to touch.  Just when you tow, make sure it's
> out of gear, and the wheel is unlocked.  There, I said it.  Let's put this
> pitiful controversy to rest and talk about something cool like stroker
> motors.
>
> Kenik Hassel
> 71 fastback
>
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> > From: Ben R Lowry <spacemanspiff@juno.com>
> > To: Adriaan@NORTON.CTECH.AC.ZA
> > Cc: type-3@umich.edu
> > Subject: Re: Towing a T3
> > Date: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 4:26 PM
> >
> > What about if you just tow 2 or 3 miles SLOWLY?
> > Maybe not the most prudent thing, but will it do harm?
> >
> > Ben
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:16:15 GMT+0200 "Adriaan Loedolff"
> > <Adriaan@NORTON.CTECH.AC.ZA> writes:
> > >Hello all
> > >
> > >>  I have also accasionally wondered if you could tow an
> > >> AT car with the engine idling and I think it would be fine.  The
> > >only
> > >> potential problems I can see would be if the transmission
> > >> accidentally slipped into gear, or if something (like the oil
> > >> pressure light) happened to the engine and there was no one there
> > >> to notice.
> > >
> > >I once had to do just that after a brake caliper seized and I had to
> > >get towed. You still have to take it real slow because even with the
> > >engine idling, the lubrication of the transmission will be
> > >insufficient for high speed towing.
> > >
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >Adriaan Loedolff
> > >adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za
> > >'69 Variant Automatic (200 000 miles + and still cruisin' after all of
> > >these years!)
> > >