At my local U-Haul, a trailer is only $10 more per day than a tow
dolly. If the roadster's registration has expired, you can tow on the
trailer without fear of getting a ticket since no vehicle wheels touch
the road. Also, you don't need to have lights on the back of your car
since they're on the back of the trailer.
--- "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Marc!
>
> It is a crap shoot as to whether to tie the driveshaft off to one
> side on
> a 1600, or tow it with the driveshaft in place. I thought about using
> an
> old fron u-joint yoke to replace the driveshaft in the trans, but it
> would
> be messy and have to be done on the dolly, then you would have to top
> off
> the trans when you got where you were going! Has anyone tried
> driving the
> car on the dolly backwards? I know it puts more vertical load on the
> front
> wheels, and the steering box, so it seems that the only way to REALLY
> tow
> our cars safely is on a trailer!
>
> Peace,
> Pat
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>
> Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor, Future planner
> CS Dept, University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 78712 USA
> voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, mtyler wrote:
>
> > Patrick J. Horne wrote
> >
> > >I have a friend that owned a wrecker service that had to buy a
> corvette a
> > >new engine when the trans was in neutral at the beginning of a tow
> that
> > >went into gear when the driver hit a rather large bump, causing
> something
> > >in the car to push the trans into gear. The driver didn't notice
> the
> > >additional
> > >drag caused by turning the engine. 30 miles doen the road it was
> shot.
> > >....... At least that is what I was told!
> > >
> > >Peace,
> > >Pat
> > I can show you a nicely exploded picture of a 320 transmission
> housing
> > from just such an incident. Or a picture of a nicely exploded 320
> > transmission housing... Look before you tow...
> >
> > http://datsun_marc.tripod.com/cgi-bin/transmission.jpg
> >
> > Of course the downside of pulling the DS in the 1600 is that the
> gearbox
> > oil will come out! Can the drive shaft be safely disconnected at
> the
> > diff end and tied up in place without interfering with the diff
> input
> > flange?
> >
> > -Marc T.
>
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