Can you flat tow a manusl trans Corvair

[rlp11]

Hi

I am going to be doing some rather long distance traveling in the near future and need to know if you can flat tow, all four wheels on the road, my 64 Corvair behind my RV? It is a manual trans. 200-300 miles at a time.

Thanks

[erco]

I think a lot of people will say no for various technical reasons, but I did it. Many moons ago, my '67 140 4-speed broke a piston at college and I towed it 500 miles home with a generic rental tow bar that clamped to the bumpers of both cars. No special prep. No backing up. She made it just fine.

[American Mel]

ABSOLUTELY YES YOU CAN ! ! !
JUST MAKE SURE IT IS IN NEUTRAL ! ! !
Due to having two pumps, you can even flat-tow a PG, though even stating that out-loud will bring some cries of "HERESY!", from the lips of some I am sure.

[Doug Ward]

Back in the 1870's, when I was slalom racing my '64 4 spd convert, I flat towed it all over the state of California. My tow bar simply bolted to the original bumper mounting holes. Corvairs track behind a tow car / truck ( mine was a Rampside) very nicely. Hard to back up though.

[erco]

Never tried it but IIRC people used to say OF POWERGLIDES that you should stop every 50-100 and start the car for a few minutes to pump oil throughout.

[joelsplace]

The idea on starting a Powerglide was to cool it down. The converter spinning is what pumps air to cool it. I don't think I believe it needs cooling when towing though because the vast majority of the heat generated in a Powerglide is from converter slip. Since the rear pump runs when the wheels are moving it doesn't need any other oil circulation that I know of.