Personally I prefer to load the gears by driving my Tiger.
If I put any car on a dolly I would disconnect the drive shaft to
eliminate the drag and turning of any of the transmission parts; read that
as no wear to any parts in the transmission. I would also mark the drive
shaft flange just because I like to put parts back in the position as I
removed them. Simply the way I like to do things.
The few times my Tiger has been towed it was on a trailer; thus no
wear and tear to any of the parts, gears or tires.
Ron Fraser
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From: owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net] On
Behalf Of DrMayf
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:09 AM
To: John Clark
Cc: tigers@Autox.Team.Net; James Pickard
Subject: Re: towing a Tiger
Well, that is curious in several aspects. The first being that towing puts a
load on the diff gears in the wrong way--does the ASE mechanic never coast ?
When you take your foot off the gas pedal, you are loading the gears in the
"wrong way" exactly as in towing. As to the drive shaft balancing, did you
never have a drive shaft fabricated? They are balanced out of the car on a
machine. So marking the location on the flange to maintain proper balance
also makes no sense to me at all. Regardless of what the shop manual says.
I am curious to say the least...anyone have any technical reason to do this?
and all my friends call me just plain ol' mayf
mayf, out in Pahrump...
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