Re: Possible issues with towing a scirocco in neutral?

["Brian Haygood" <haygood@myway.com>]

Yeah, find some way to hold the clutch pedal down (you have a hydraulic clutch, so maybe you want to install a hydraulic line lock if you do the towing or front engine only thing often.  Otherwise, just bailing wire the clutch arm on the tranny up.  Then leave it in neutal and I don't think there should be a whole lot of a problem.



Brian







--- On Thu 02/24, Dan Bubb < jdbubb@ix.netcom.com > wrote:

From: Dan Bubb [mailto: jdbubb@ix.netcom.com]

To: ansonivan@yahoo.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:28:59 -0500

Subject: Re: Possible issues with towing a scirocco in neutral?



Well, the little needle bearings that the gears ride on will get a bit of a workout.<br>With the gearbox input shaft (the one that splines into the clutch) stationary cause the engine <br>isn't running the relative RPM of the shafts and the gears will be quite a bit higher than cruising <br>down the highway with the engine running and in gear.<br>If you could somehow disengage the clutch the relative speeds would be much closer, kind of like <br>being in gear.<br>I could do an analysis, but the math is making my head hurt ;^)<br>Anyway, if your gearbox lube is pretty clean, doesn't have a bunch of little metal particles in it, <br>I can't imagine it would make a difference.<br><br>a relatively useless .02<br>Dan<br><br><br>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:25 PM<br>Subject: Possible issues with towing a scirocco in neutral?<br><br><br>> Alright so as most of you know a few "B" listers are heading up to Vermont this weekend for ice <br>> racing and drunken debauchery.<br>>
<br>> MK1Mark being the total lunatic that he is insisted (oh twist my arm) upon towing the twin up <br>> there for the event.<br>><br>> Even though we will be employing his ingenious kickass superfuckingfragalistic tow dollymajigger <br>> the twins rear wheels still have to ride on the ground and as a result the rear transmission will <br>> be freewheeling in neutral all the way up there.<br>><br>> I have driven the car pretty extensively with just the front engine running and so far have had no <br>> issues.<br>><br>> I can't see why the neutral tow would do any more damage than normal driving but then again I <br>> can't remember to take the fucking trash out....<br>><br>> Anybody have some theories or better yet real world experience?<br>><br>> Anson<br>><br>> __________________________________________________<br>> Do You Yahoo!?<br>> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around<br>> http://mail.yahoo.com<br>> ___________________________________________
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