azmodela
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Do you really want me to answer this?
I'll leave this up to the room full of supposed towing experts!
Tow your cars anyway you want, I really don't care.
Hauling car on a trailer
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Do you really want me to answer this?
I'll leave this up to the room full of supposed towing experts!
Tow your cars anyway you want, I really don't care.
oldandtired
Well-known member
I use 4 axle straps and 4 comealongs. The straps keep from messing up the paint. I put two in front and two on the rear. I hook the winch to the front as a backup. I put it in gear with the brake on or in park if it is an automatic. I generally tow about 20 minutes, pull over somewhere and make sure everything is still tight and check each couple of hundred miles afterward when I stop to use the facilities or get gas.
I do not want to end up wearing the vehicle but I would feel a lot worse if it came off and hurt someone else.
I do not want to end up wearing the vehicle but I would feel a lot worse if it came off and hurt someone else.
Kube
Super Moderator
I'd like you to answer this, yes please...Do you really want me to answer this?
I'll leave this up to the room full of supposed towing experts!
Tow your cars anyway you want, I really don't care.
Larry in NH
Junior Member
Having logged in several thousand miles over quite few years attending National Early Ford V8 and AACA Meets I have always tied the 4 corners down using top quality MACS tie-down straps with car in neutral and the emergency brake set.
Always double check straps before heading out and recheck at first stop on the trip for any movement. We encounter some rough roads at times but we have never had an issue with any major movement of the vehicle in the trailer. Why put any unnecessary load on the transmission gears. Just my take on the subject and proven to work without incident.
Always double check straps before heading out and recheck at first stop on the trip for any movement. We encounter some rough roads at times but we have never had an issue with any major movement of the vehicle in the trailer. Why put any unnecessary load on the transmission gears. Just my take on the subject and proven to work without incident.
oldford2
Well-known member
This thread is going the path of many threads. Dozens of pro/con posts. I only towed once with a U-Haul transporter, car tied down with their wheel straps and my come-a-longs to the frame. In first gear. W Virginia to MA and the car never moved. Now we have many first hand reports by people towing in gear but not a single post by someone who has broken a tooth towing in gear. Just a bunch of folks that claim this might occur. Too many guesses to some of these threads.
John
John
trulyvintage
Well-known member
I haul .... 
Every day ....
Cars in my enclosed trailer that have a transmission are in gear.
(4) straps at (4) points
9000 winch line attached
Jim
Every day ....
Cars in my enclosed trailer that have a transmission are in gear.
(4) straps at (4) points
9000 winch line attached
Jim
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uncle buck
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Do you really want me to answer this?
I'll leave this up to the room full of supposed towing experts!
Tow your cars anyway you want, I really don't care.
OK , enlighten us with your vast towing knowledge Mr. towing expert.
Inquiring minds want to know...........
uncle buck
Well-known member
Also I believe I read in the past they are rated in straight line shear load rather than side shear load. Can somebody confirm this?
Scott H in Wheaton
Well-known member
No one has opened the other can of worms with trailering a car....has anyone towed with the car on the trailer backwards?
If its an empty body, no big deal. But if it has an engine, you want the weight of the engine towards the trailer tongue and not towards the tail. Too little of the weight on the tongue will cause the trailer to sway.
And to throw my two cents in to the pot, I always tow with four straps in a straight line and don't think it hurts at all to leave it in park or in gear. Lots of old cars I've towed are projects and are lucky to even have a parking brake, much less one that works.
If its an empty body, no big deal. But if it has an engine, you want the weight of the engine towards the trailer tongue and not towards the tail. Too little of the weight on the tongue will cause the trailer to sway.
And to throw my two cents in to the pot, I always tow with four straps in a straight line and don't think it hurts at all to leave it in park or in gear. Lots of old cars I've towed are projects and are lucky to even have a parking brake, much less one that works.
itslow
Well-known member
Yes, but only because it wasn't feasible to get the car on the trailer the "regular" direction. Car also had a 55/45 weight distribution and was pretty short (2004 GTO).
Marv
Well-known member
No but i done it with a 4 place taildragger airplane. Everything was ok till i got in the mountains and it was raining. I barely made it because of the truck tires spinning. The planes engine and cabin weight was actualy lifting the rear of the truck up. The trailer was not long enough to load the airplane correctly.
