Anybody tow with a 4 banger

[cart7t]

My past 4 towing trucks I've owned since 1984 all had OD transmissions. 3 were auto's and one was a stick.  I tow in OD all the time and I've never had a transmission problem ever.  On light grades I can usually leave it in OD without a problem. Steeper grades I drop down to L2.  As for gas mileage?  I probably gain a mile or two a gallon in OD vs running all the time in L2 but certainly not the big difference in MPG if I was running the truck empty.

[RatONaStick]

KU

You did ask about 5th gear and towing, evedently you got what your asked for and quite a bit more. ;D

I'm sorry to the rest of you guys but Way2Slow is so full of "it" his eyes are brown.

I guess by quoting him and contradicting the falacies he mentioned I was the one who started "crap". Rediculous, I wasn't the one who started making snyde remarks like a child. I wasn't the one who couldn't take critisism like an adult.

Falacies like "If you did break 5th in your Honda, it's easy enough to fix, just unbolts and bolt another on, only take a few minutes but will cost you approx $300 for the parts."

The OD in any Honda is not an external unit he makes it seem like. The OD in a Honda is just like the OD in any other vehicle and is just two more gears just like the rest of the gears in the trans. One gear is on the mainshaft, the other is on the countershaft, with one of these gears having a synchronizer assembly. To replace the gears you have to remove the trans and nearly disassemble the entire transmission. I know because I have actually rebuilt standard transmissions.

I seriously doubt he has ever seen inside a Honda trans let alone ANY trans. I can provide a diagram for proof as well. Plus, I think it's awfully convenient that after the fact he supposedly replaced the "OD unit" as he calls it in his nephews Accord. If that were the case why not mention that from the beginning? And if it is "truth" it's only a half truth. I'm willing to bet even IF something did go bad it wasn't the gears themselves it was the synchronizer that went bad, which is from poor shifting. Not heavy loads in 5th or a poor design.

For someone that's built "Aries" hemis you would think that he could actually spell Arias correctly. I doubt he even knows what an Arias hemi is or what it's based on.