is it a good idea to tow your camaro by wrapping a rope around ur A pillars? sence we our cars sit so low you cant tow them with a truck that way. any other options? i need my car home by tonight

 

No, that's the worst idea I have ever heard. If you NEED your car home tonight, call a tow truck.

 

I'm pretty sure without multiple ropes your car wieghing around 3k lbs will snap the rope. And that would most likely be a big fine...

 

That just couldnt be good for the windshield and you can bend those A pillars easier then most cars. Not to mention the possibility of the rope or strap hitting your head if it breaks.

You should use the factory hooks that hang off the front but you should take off the airdam or it will get busted.

On second thought, borrow a trailer or get a tow truck. Something will break no matter how you do it

 

damn it. cause i posted a thing in the carb section but no1 is helping. cause my fuel filter ither is blocked or the fuel isnt get deliverd to the engine. and i need it home tonight and i spent my money on a part that i thought would fix it.

 

Off topic: But why do you NEED it home tonight if it doesn't even run?

 

well see im only 18, and my mom took my insurance off cause its "winter" and theres no snow on the ground and its a beautiful 60 degress out so i took it out and put gas in and then it died and gas isnt being deliverd so yeah, im not supposed to drive it without insurance.

 

Do you know anybody with AAA? If so, have them call for a tow. I never once had the tow truck driver ask for the card when arriving.

 

no i dont, and i spent my money on a part and got zero for a tow

 

how far away from home are you? lol

 

hey no wise cracks about my age :P but im around a mile from my car, i had to skip the rest of my high school to get a part that didnt even fix the problem.

 

you MIGHT be able to get away with holding it in neutral and having someone LIGHTLY pull up to your bumper, SLOWLY push your car and if is all down hill you're good to go. But you need to be in the car if you do that or else your car will probably escape you. Do you have tags on the car? I would get the car out of there asap.... Be safe, don't do anything stupid that won't be worth it. Make sure your brakes are all good too lol.

 

i actually contacted the police telling them my problem and they said they wont do anything and i had to push the car about 300 meters(that sucked) and only option was a gravel parking lot and turned out to be mud once u put weight on it.

 

bad move.... sorry to say but you probably won't see your car in the morning if you told them about your location/insurance

 

non i didnt tell them about the insurance, and my girlfriend's father is the mayor so its ok, plus the cops here are understandable.

 

no a freind with a tralier?? mine broke down about 10 miles from my house and the next day we drove it up onto the tralier didnt drag or anything barley fit on it length wise but at least it was home haha

 

nope, they got trailers, all to steep for the front end, and if u go back end first then the nose will rub the ground, i jsut got a new paint job to

 

remove the grill,tie the tow rope around through the holes and behind the inner bumper.
That should work.

 

ok any1 else got ideas?

 

Um theres this two holes on either side of the front end that you oculd try to use. I usually use them for tie down strap holders. its right on the "frame" up front look around by your tires. If it helps?

 

never tow there, you can crush your windshield and a pillars inward!!! try wraping a rope around the hoodlatch support if you dont have the dual intake setup. i have also towed around the front tag suport, but you have to remove the grilles


considering it died after refueling, i would assume you stirred some shi t up in the tank, pluging the filter or tank sump/pump. what is your setup? how did you check for fuel to the engine?

 

considering it died after refueling, i would assume you stirred some shi t up in the tank, pluging the filter or tank sump/pump. what is your setup? how did you check for fuel to the engine?[/quote]

well look at my cardomain(its in the signature) and u can find out, but how i checked was basically took of the holly intake and then looked down the 4 barrel carb and moved the throttle and the primarys werent doing anything, and th secondarys were then after a bit then spudderd and then stopped and tried again about 10min later and secondarys only sputterd and the primarys dindt do anyhting.

 

This thread blows.

Either you

a) tow the car professionally

b) tow the car with a friend's truck and trailer

c) get a few friends to help push the car the mile home

d) tell your parents you screwed up and ask for their help

That's it. Stop giving teens and thirdgens a bad name by talking about strapping ropes around the a-pillars to drag the poor car out of where you shouldn't have had it, anyway.

 

Bull i havnt talked to you in awhile, and i actually payed for my third gen, and it was a bad mistake to take it out. not my fault that the car started up just fine and then crapped out from putting new gas in it, and it probably is that when i was filling it up, it mixed stuff around into the filters, and i been asking were the filters are.

 

I always find it hard to believe that people own cars, and don't know the simplest things about the car.

 

do you have a buddy with a truck? do you have any towstraps with hooks? In the rear, in front of the wheels, Under the car, there are oval holes in the frame rails that you use with recovery hooks when the car need to be loaded on a flatbead/wrecker. They are a safe point to attach a tow strap and route it under the axle and to another vehicle thats made for towing. Be sure not to tow the car very far on all 4 wheels if it is an automatic trans. Even when its in neutral parts move and the trans will cook without fluid moving in it.

This creates the issue of brakes. When the truck stops, the car wont, and it will hit the truck.

Riding in a vehicle in tow is illegal, i believe, and unsafe.

and most importantly, think before you do. Dont do something that sounds bad, because it most likely is.

 

Have we talked before on here? I forget screen names, sometimes.

I might have been harsh with you just now. I read that ridiculous thread from the kid in Indy who rambles on and who posted about scratching a woman's car on the way to his school parking lot just before reading your post. So, I might have been in a bad mood. My bad.

I still think options a-d are your only ones, man.

 

yeah bull we talked about the 4th gen console swap and ways we can make a shift indicator. And i only got gas in it because it started just fine and i let it idel for about 10 minutes and it was just fine, put it in gear and was great, got gas and things went bad. so yeah bad mistake and i already told my parents

 

I do remember the console discussion now.

Sorry to have been harsh.

Glad you told your folks already.

 

so bull does have a kind heart, lol just messing, but its fine, i understand. but back on topic, where the heck is the fuel filter?

 

Try pulling it backwards by the oval holes in the rear frame rails, the crash bar will keep your rear bumper cover from being crushed by the tow strap.

And the fuel filter is on the drivers side right in front of the rear axle.

 

As a parent myself I have to say admitting your mistake to your parents and suffering the consequences is the grownup thing to do. Yes ... you made a mistake ... and unfortunately you will make more in your life. Thats part of growing up. Parents know that.
Nobody got hurt, there wasn't a need for insurance that you didn't have, so, so far things are pretty good! And even if you get restricted from driving it'll give you more time to work on your car. Good Luck.

 

*sighs*

Kids.....

*sighs*

 

Originally the filter was inline under the driverside of the car at about the back of the door. With your mods it's hard to say if they're still using the original.
Glad you told your parents.

 

thanks!!!

 

Please, leave your computer, AND GET YOUR IROC BACK HOME!!! It misses its nice car cover lol.

 

im sending a mass text to my firneds, we r pushing the thing!

 

Um tow companies will charge you less then 30$ to tow your car the distance to your house. You made a mistake, pony up and pay because quite frankly it doesnt sound like you know how to properly tow a car with a truck anyways and thats where mistakes happen, with inexperience and cutting corners. But dont worry it happens to the best of us. We all just learn from our mistakes lol. Im 20 and i have been down the road your on quite a few times.

Otherwise my car was towed by the shop who put my engine in, car made it about 3/4 mile down the road before it died, the owner came out with his truck tied some kind of nylon type belt to his hitch and hooked the other end up to the hooking parts on the frame. He had a rope specifically for towing cars. Only time i ever saw anyone tow a car without a rig or a trailer.

 

Good deal!! Make sure to give all your friends that help push it a big thanks.

 

this made my day lol

 

I know if you tow it and the rear wheels will be on the ground then you need to pull the drive shaft to keep the transmission internals from spinning without getting the fluid pumped threwout the tranny will fry it. since your going to push it Im not sure if you need to do this or if the driveshaft can just stay in though. any more experienced people have some insight??

 

He said it was only about a mile ... it should be fine.

 

IT WORKS AGAIN!!! me and my friend where pushing it and we had it in nutral and the fuel pump was primeing the whole time or w.e noise that is and then about half way i turned the key and it started up just fine, got the friend in the passenger, took him home and in my garage, then let it sit 10 minutes then turned it on and let it idel for 5 and it works great, any1 know what could of happend?

 

but now im pissed at myself, why didnt i think about doing that earlier and then my parents wouldnt have known

 

going to say if you do go by trailer make sure your there when you do it :S and a low enough one... i was going my girlfriends house thats lives 18 miles out of town... and on the way some how my transmission crapped out on me and my clutch went out at the same time ( repair shop told me tranny was shelled ? ) i called my dad and him and my brother went out there with a trailer... they tried going nose first.. didn't work the nose hit the ramps... so next the had to push it in reverse... on the way up my cat back exhaust hit and they bent it downward :S so now its its cut off... so its open exhaust manifolds ha ha


good to see you got your car home nice and safe and godo thing its running again

 

yeah one time after the car got painted we had a flat bed tow truck come by and lift it and i wasnt there and i got my exhust one right before the paint job and new everything about it and when i got home and saw my car the right side looks likes its more down then it normally was

 

if you go over 30-40mph the torque convertor will start to crank the engine. with it in netural it still spins the clutch packs, but there is no hydraulic pressure apllied to the clutch pack so it can cause wear to the frictions in the tranny. if you are going over 30mph while pulling a vehicle with a rope thru the a pillars, the last thing i would worry about is the tranny!!

anyways, this thread does suck

 

ive tried push starti9ng a few gm auto cars and it never worked lol....even trying the "jury rigging" lock up by-pass switch thing.
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Basically by flipping switch it locks the tq converter up(ended up killing that tq converter doing that

 

"ended up killing that tq converter doing that"

nuff said

 

Hey, was the guy that made you go and drive your car when you shouldn't.. is his name Larry Mondello..????