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Re: dropping drive shaft

To: "Michael Jose" <cookie-monster@home.com>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: dropping drive shaft
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:08:15 -0400
>Hi,
>I am not quite caught up on the digests, so sorry if someone else has
>said this.
>I always thought this question had a simple answer.
>If the car is front-wheel drive, tow it facing forward, with the front
>wheels off the ground.
>If the car is rear-wheel drive (like an MGB), tow it facing backward,
>with the rear wheels off the ground.
>This way, only the "free-wheeling" wheels are on the ground, doing what
>they do best, "free-wheeling"!
>Hope this makes sense.
>Now stop arguing!
>Mike Jose
>Phoenix AZ
Don't tow a car with wire wheels bacwards. The knockoffs are threaded to 
turn one way - to "tighten" as you drive foward. The kockoffs can come 
loose if towing the car backwards.

Larry

Larry Macy
78 Midget

Keep your top down and your chin up

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104


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