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dgrossmann44
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Posts: 12
Your Best Time: none yet 1/4 mile
Your Engine: BBC
Your Track: Sears Point / Sonoma
Your Vehicle: 175" FED
General Location: West Coast
Towing with a strap
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January 27, 2020, 04:15:00 PM »
What is the best spot to connect the strap to the car. We’ve been Connecting to center of the front axle. Steering feels little different after pulling it around a bit. Has a P&S box 175” FED Thanks
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THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER
Sr. Member
Posts: 360
Your Best Time: 8.28@168 door; 9.00@147 6-cyl alt; 8.53@160 RED
Your Engine: 300 Ford six NA w/ crossflow and prod. heads
Your Track: Milan, Thompson
Your Vehicle: (3) Advanced Chassis altered , The Last Logghe altered, '30 RPU
General Location: North Coast
Re: Towing with a strap
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January 27, 2020, 06:01:39 PM »
In my instance I have a 5/8 ID tube welded on the frame that sticks up flush with the nosepiece to drop a pin in and hook a strap over it. On a couple of occasions track personnel have had to use it to get my car off the track after being disabled.
But to your other point, I have had a couple of P&S style boxes go bad (chipped scroll gear or worm gear). I'd take that box apart and examine it. They are not very complicated to service.
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rooman
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Posts: 559
Your Best Time: 6.200/222.05 (1/4 mile--NT/F)
Re: Towing with a strap
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January 28, 2020, 04:51:15 AM »
Where the strap is hooked up should not affect the steering although I am not a big fan of the deal that puts tow loops on the spindle caps. I do the same as Frenchtown on my cars. The 5/8" tow pin is the NHRA standard for TAD and T/F so any of the safety vehicles at a track sanctioned by them should have that capability.
Roo
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Yeah, I am from the south--any further south and I would have been a bloody penguin.
gregm784
Sr. Member
Posts: 384
Your Engine: 365" GenIV SBC
Your Track: Famoso Raceway
Your Vehicle: 1997 Stirling 200" FED
Re: Towing with a strap
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January 28, 2020, 10:29:09 AM »
i build a pin holder under my front nose. We drop the pin thru the nose, into it's hole and away we go. i do not like pulling from the front axle at all. I know it was done for years that way, but i don't like it.
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Greg
El Dorado County, CA
www.meansracing.com
dreracecar
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Re: Towing with a strap
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January 28, 2020, 02:08:53 PM »
Drop pin
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MaggiFinn
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Posts: 54
Your Engine: SBC 355-406
Your Track: Kvartmiluklubburinn
Your Vehicle: FED
Re: Towing with a strap
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November 27, 2020, 02:03:01 PM »
I absolutely hate being towed.
If you have the chance, rig up a bar to push the car.
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Magnús Finnbjörnsson
https://www.youtube.com/user/MaggiFinn1/videos
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