On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:34:00PM -0400, VanDerWal, Peter MSgt wrote:
> Whoa there, this is very likely BAD ADVICE.  Many transmission can be
> damaged by putting them in neutral and towing them any significant distance,
> 15 miles might just be enough.

I was under the impression this was only an issue with automatic
transmissions, which have an oil pump driven by the input shaft to
lubricate some of the moving parts.  As far as I know, that's not
true of any manual transmissions, but I'm far from being an expert...

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