- 41. towing (score: 1)
- Author: glen <glen@espressocom.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:23:31 -0600
- yeah, what do y'all think about that? i'm planning on towing mine this summer for about 1000 miles. who's got a lot of experience with long distance towing? i'm planning using a chevy 3/4 ton pickup
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00746.html (6,456 bytes)
- 42. Towing (score: 1)
- Author: richard.arnold@juno.com (Richard D Arnold)
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 06:40:29 -0600
- I could be wrong, but it seems that there are two distinct schools of thought on towing a LBC; to-wit: (1) Driveshaft In, and (2) Driveshaft Out. As each camp seems particularly dedicated to their vi
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg00966.html (7,967 bytes)
- 43. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: "Kenneth Scott" <KSCOTT@holycross.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:02:19 -0500
- One of the advantages of AAA Plus membership (only a few dollars more) is = that if a flat bed is available anywhere within reason you can insist that = the car be flat bedded. Further, they must tow
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg00968.html (8,679 bytes)
- 44. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:09:16 -0600
- Hi Richard, Man, if you aren't a case! (G) Here you are burning up bandwidth telling us to quit burning up bandwidth. Ya just started another controversy. ONe guy wrote last summer, telling us it was
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg00975.html (7,083 bytes)
- 45. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:28:47 -0600
- Itoo have towing insurance, and it's a lot better than AAA. You haven't thought it through, though. I towed my B to VT, with a week's delay on CApe Cod, behind my motorhome so I could drive it in th
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg00976.html (7,667 bytes)
- 46. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:51:58 -0600
- Kelvin, Nope. I'm not sure, having never tried it. I don't venture opinions on things I've never tried. I don't THINK there's any prob since there's no braking to move the wheels on their splines per
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg00998.html (7,642 bytes)
- 47. RE: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:16:44 -0800
- You have a good point in your other post regarding "experts" which is why I make sugestions rather than unsupported statements. On the wire wheel issue I will stand as an expert and state that you m
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg01007.html (8,730 bytes)
- 48. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.bc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:36:33 -0800
- Not only heartache or cost of repairing ones vehicle, but if wheels fall off or cars pop into gear, even if there is only a REMOTE CHANCE, it is entirely possible that someone could lose their life o
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg01010.html (8,174 bytes)
- 49. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: richard.arnold@juno.com (Richard D Arnold)
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:10:22 -0600
- Shoot, I was just looking for an excuse to be a smartass.... Now this I hadn't considered (haven't towed Maggie anywhere, nor any vehicle with wires). Makes sense, though. I wonder, could one avoid
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg01024.html (7,565 bytes)
- 50. Re: Towing (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:54:41 -0600
- Nah, way too much work. Use chemistry. The hot setup is liberal application of red Locktite and then torque to the standard 500 ft/lbs. Towing it backwards becomes the least of your problems. -- Bob
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg01029.html (7,695 bytes)
- 51. TOWING (score: 1)
- Author: Neil_Oldfield@nag.national.com.au
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:07:20 +1000
- How About we Set up a new List to argue this towing bussiness properly. Neil
- /html/mgs/1998-12/msg01160.html (6,883 bytes)
- 52. Towing (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Razor <mrazor@kih.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 10:18:39 -0500
- I understand that dropping the shaft removes any strain on the gearbox. I have towed both of my MGs with a tow dolly and never have dropped the shaft and have had zero trouble with them. I had to mak
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00527.html (6,431 bytes)
- 53. towing (score: 1)
- Author: wayne buletza <rwbmg@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:46:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi! We have just purchased a motorhome, and plan to either tow or trailer our MG to locations that I want to drive such as the Smokey Mountains National Park. I do not want to use a tow bar, so I kno
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00915.html (7,605 bytes)
- 54. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: "MIKE_J2@SFOV1.VERIFONE.COM" <MIKE_J2@sfov1.verifone.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:58:27 -1000
- Have to get an answer on this part from someone else more knowledgable. I towed my Midget home with a dolly, front end on the dolly, rear end on the ground. If it were me doing this for more than a
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00918.html (8,895 bytes)
- 55. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
- I'll second that! IMNSHO BritCars are made to be driven, not towed <oops, where did I leave my asbesatos suit?>, but I do tow horse trailors of various sizes behind a 1995 Dodge Ram 2500HD pickup. S
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00920.html (8,814 bytes)
- 56. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 12:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Absolutely correct. A 4 wheel trailer should be set up so it is dead level when unloaded, then the load should be positioned so about 10% of the combined weight of the trailer and load is on the hitc
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00922.html (9,193 bytes)
- 57. towing (score: 1)
- Author: wayne buletza <rwbmg@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Thanks for the advice regarding towing. I will get the car trailer rather than a dolly. As for the brakes...I was lead to understand that surge brakes were easier to use than electric. Help me unders
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00926.html (7,610 bytes)
- 58. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: skillman@clark.net (Bob,Jean,Matt or Maggie Skillman)
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:44:58 -0500
- Surge brakes are a no-brainer. You hook up the trailer and go. When braking the weight of the trailer shifts forward to compress a master cylinder which applies the breaks. Sounds and works simple bu
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00928.html (9,170 bytes)
- 59. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
- The surge brakes are easier to use, but they offer little control. The surge brake system uses a link in the trailer tongue that is connected to a master cylinder. When the tow vehicle slows, the tra
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00936.html (11,400 bytes)
- 60. Re: towing (score: 1)
- Author: Don Mathis <tdm@smtp-gw.ak.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:09:59 -0400
- The horse hated that as >did anyone behind me. Welll....this is a new side of Dr. Gibbons that has never been mentioned before.....Hop-a-long Gibbons. Doggies! As a former Oklahoman, I can apprediat
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00941.html (8,570 bytes)
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