<VV> Towing Per the Tech Guide (Suggestion)

[RoboMan91324 at aol.com]

Gang,

All of my Vairs are stick shift and I have a trailer anyway so this train 
isn't all that important to me.  However, an answer to the heating question might 
be had if someone were to flat tow (or dolly tow) a PG car a reasonable 
distance and then reach under and feel the transmission case.  Even though you will 
not be able to tell the specific temp of internal components, you should be 
able to feel a significant heat rise on the case.  Obviously, you should report 
your findings back to the group.

Just a suggestion.

Doc
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In a message dated 7/18/2005 10:21:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:05:21 -0500
> From: "Keith Hammett" <khammett at stainlessfab.com>
> Subject: <VV> RE: Towing Per the Tech Guide
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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> 
> The two that I towed went much farther than 50 miles at speeds higher than 
> the 50 mph, no foaming, fluid loss was observed.  Now who can say that seals 
> didn't harden up, after all these are around 40 years old.  I question that if 
> towing causes that much heat to be generated to harden up seals, what kind 
> of heat is generated when the transmission is under load?  Just how much heat 
> is released from the torque converter (after all it is generating some heat 
> by spinning the fluid)?  I think that the same applies to the friction 
> surfaces,clutches, and bands (when in neutral aren't the clutches and bands 
> released?  Thus no friction from them?).  As long as the fluid is being moved in the 
> transmission you shouldn't have a problem, the heat must be below the 
> breakdown point of transmission fluid (what ever that is).
> 
> Keith Hammett