<VV> Re: Flat towing a manual transmission

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And when you wouldn't mind the transmission being damaged, like our '64 
Monza's original 3-speed -- the absolute worst tranny I've ever driven, from the 
3-on-a-tree in my old '49 Plymouth to 18-speeds in semis -- nothing happens.

--Tom Berg

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In a message dated 7/20/2005 8:08:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:


> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26:47 -0400
> From: "Ewell Mills" <emills5 at cfl.rr.com>
> Subject: <VV> Flat towing a manual transmission
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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> This thread has been going on for quite awhile now, and I have read all 
> kinds of things that I did not know about. (good lessons).  My point is this.  In 
> all the talk about what will happen if you don't do this that or the other, 
> lash the clutch down etc. so and so will happen.  What is strange is that 
> there have been numerous comments made by various people that they have done 
> this and had no trouble what-so-ever. (including myself)  Unless I missed it, I 
> have yet to see a single one where someone destroyed or otherwise damaged a 
> transmission from flat towing one.  I'm old, and it has been my experience 
> over the years that most any straight shift transmission can be flat towed with 
> no ill results.  I used to do it all the time when I had motor homes, as did 
> lots of other people and still do.  Motor home supply stores used to sell 
> needed parts to pump oil through an automatic while being pulled with a warning 
> light in the motor home should the external pump fail. Just my .02!
> cents worth.
> 
> Cecil Mills
> Cocoa, Fl.
>