tow starting an auto

[Vultch]

On another forum..(BMW) a guy claims to have tow started an old merc diesel taxi with an auto transmission...he claims 'it took a while and there was a cough lots of smoke but it started'

can this be true

[gwh200]

sounds like ollocks with a capital b

[Tiger]

i'am no expert but I have never herd of this before. Doubt it not havin it

[Albannach]

Tell him he's talking sh1te.

If he argues, send him here; we'll sort him out...

[pirate-storm]

i was always told you cant tow start a auto

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

I heard that it was possible, but you had to be really shifting.

Later on I heard that now way do you tow an auto far or fast otherwise you could cause damage.

As far as I am concerned, I will pass on bump starting a surf

[MattF]

The info regarding the Merc may actually have been correct, according to this:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...1114012AA413Ho

[MrE]

I've heard that you have to tow the vehicle over 30mph and then pop it in drive
I wouldn't try it unless it was
A, an old clunker fit for scrap.

Or B, stuck in the middle of nowhere, and my only chance of getting home.

Mark.......

[JUDWAK]

i would say no i have tryed it in a auto loading shovel. If its not going to work in that.Then its not going to work at all


ohh i did not tow it tho i let it run off a heap of soil about 40ft high so i would say







nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooo

[SoundsDigital]

It can be done, but you need to be doing at least 45 mph and locked down into first gear. Not recommended though as at can do a lot of damage.

[pops]

sorry guys i seen it done years ago when i worked in the docks as a nipper
could not believe my eyes but they did it towed the car at speed and it started

[The Lovely Boyo]

Who's going to donate their truck - we can do a Brainiac and settle this once and for all.

I was a project engineer at the Borg Warner plant in Port Talbot where they built the old three speed boxes. I think we finished off on the Type 65/66.

The Aisin Warner transmission was developed by BW and Aisin and based on a lot of the old technology, but with all the nice things like overdrive and lock up convertor. So from what those guys are saying on that forum it may work!!!!!

I wouldn't try it myself.

I'd be concerned about trashing the valves and solenoids through lack of fluid pumping around.

[Sancho]

The info regarding the Merc may actually have been correct, according to this:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...1114012AA413Ho

I love the way someone specified the exact speed.

"When this baby hits 32 miles and hour..........you're gonna see some serious shit"

[The Lovely Boyo]

Snigger..............

[surfenstein]

we tried doing exactly that to stein on salisbury plains when the starter motor packed up as some of you guys would remember,danno towed me not a wise move, then sledge.but the bugger wouldnt start though,so bio and myself took the starter out and stripped it down and got it to go.