> My understanding is that this is something you do not want to do unless you
> disconnect the prop shaft. The reasoning is that the oil is circulated
> through the tranny by the rotation of the input shaft and if you tow in
>neutral
> the input shaft is stationary while the tranny is turning. I have also been
> told that this is a lot of hooey, but I also know of a bugeye in which the
> tranny failed as the result of doing so.
This varies by car, transmission designs being different. I fried the
transmission output bearing on a Cortina GT this way. Saturn has released a
bulletin that flat-towing all their Manual cars and their early Automatic cars
is OK. Their later Automatic cars require a little electrical (I am not making
this up) trickery.
You need someone that knows more about Triumph transmission design to explain
which of these situations exists for your car.
--
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban,
1994 Miata C package
pethier [at] comcast [dot] net http://forum.mnautox.com/forums/
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