Gosh, when I had to tow my Herald about 100 miles back in '76, I lit the
engine and the headlights when I started out. When the headlights
dimmed, that meant the engine stalled - time to pull over and relight
it.
This was done at night, which is about the only reasonably safe time to
tow a car behind a Datsun 610 station wagon in NJ.
Bill Kelly
'62 Herald
David Massey wrote:
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> Message text written by Randall Young
> >Another alternative to diconnecting the driveshaft is to overfill the
> tranny with oil during the trip, then drain to normal level before driving
> the car. This is easy on the earlier cars with the dipstick, on later cars
>
> I believe you can screw in a valve in place of the fill plug, then force
> oil through the valve (Sta-Lube sells a nice series of inexpensive gear oil
>
> pumps which work fine with motor oil) and close the valve.
>
> Randall
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>
> Or you can jack the car up at a severe angle so that the fill hole is above
> the mainshaft (which is what needs to be lubricated.)
>
> And if you don't want to do that you can stop every 15 miles, fire up the
> engine, let it run for a minute, the shut down and continue on your way.
> Naaa....
>
> Dave
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