Re: OMG, not ANOTHER one?! (yes, there IS a way!)

[TABunsey@xxxxxxx]

On May 20, 2005 Andy Ray wrote:

> Yeah, direct quote from the wife! I just bought another 64 440(no H with this one). Some of you may have seen it on Ebay recently. The white one with the red interior out of Escondido CA? Anywhoo, now I have to get it here to Las Vegas. I have access to a tow dolly from a fellow club member(Hi Ron! Can I borrow your dolly?!), but it occured to me that this is an automatic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I can't just put it in neutral and dolly it back. Is there any way, besides taking the car apart, to move this car 300 miles without renting a trailer? Thanks in advance!
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> Andy Ray
> Las Vegas
> 3 64 440's
> 68 Javelin SST 343


I apologize for the tardyness of the response (maybe someone has added the solution by now), but...


 TOWING YOUR '64 (ON A TOW DOLLEY) REALLY SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM!
How's that for a provacative statement?

Here's why:
Using a tow dolley with the car on the dolley in the "normal" position, I towed a 1965 Ambassador 990H several hundred miles home (ON A TOW DOLLEY) without any ill effects. The tranny was fine, afterwards. The original, earlier versions of the B-W automatics had TWO oil pumps (one driven by the input shaft, the other driven by the output shaft). About 1966 or so, B-W decided that the output shaft oil pump wasn't needed and deleted it (cost savings). Of course, the side effect was the towing issue.

I have towed cars with their rear end on the dolley and have experience the fishtailing described earlier. I think that the cause is the heavier end of the car (engine & tranny) needs to be on the dolley. There is probably a nice physics term to explain this, but I can't recall it just now. Something about center of mass over towing wheels....

When I tow later cars (those that don't have a rear pump in the tranny), I use a Holmes dolley that I found at a swap meet several years ago. This is what the old Holmes wreckers used when a wrecked car had all four wheels inoperable. Essentially, it is a little cradle supported by 4 small wheels that the rear wheels of the towed vehicle sat in. I used this to tow a 1957 Rambler from St. Louis to Columbus, Ohio. 

Tom Bunsey
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