I hope that I haven't got one - I don't like the idea of a dsg being towed at all even in neutral with the ignition on ( vw recommended method I believe ), all to do with oil circulation I am led to believe.
I would insist on a flatbed
Removal of the OEM wheel bolt covers
i love this forum. My T6 did not have a towing eye so i hunted high and low on the web to find one. The one i got looked the right length and thread size but no matter how many times i tried it would not screw in. Only after reading this thread did i realise it's a left hand thread. It screwed in first bloody timeI remember being stuck in a muddy field in the peeing down rain trying to screw that damn thing in to the right.
I do it all the time with the propane gas tank connections on the narrowboat. Five minutes of straining away with the gas spanner and 2 minutes of profanity when I remember.i love this forum. My T6 did not have a towing eye so i hunted high and low on the web to find one. The one i got looked the right length and thread size but no matter how many times i tried it would not screw in. Only after reading this thread did i realise it's a left hand thread. It screwed in first bloody time
We've owned it for 20 years so there's really no excuse...
can a knowledgable Master tell this Padawan why towing eyes are left hand threadi love this forum. My T6 did not have a towing eye so i hunted high and low on the web to find one. The one i got looked the right length and thread size but no matter how many times i tried it would not screw in. Only after reading this thread did i realise it's a left hand thread. It screwed in first bloody time
i am thinking the pulling torque even on an extended tow would be left and right???
It's to do with the traditional lay (turning direction) of rope.
As a traditional tow rope stretches it will also twist, and that twist is enough to start breaking the towing eye loose if the thread on the towing eye is in the same direction.
With it opposite it will just tighten.
Which if you have towed in the past you will know as any distance you are going to need a good bar to get the leverage to break the towing eye back out
I found my local pubs landlord hitting the spanner with a hammer trying to change over cylinders, I didn’t know which way to run!
Pack a non rotating rope, much easier to handle in all situations.It's to do with the traditional lay (turning direction) of rope.
As a traditional tow rope stretches it will also twist, and that twist is enough to start breaking the towing eye loose if the thread on the towing eye is in the same direction.
With it opposite it will just tighten.
Which if you have towed in the past you will know as any distance you are going to need a good bar to get the leverage to break the towing eye back out
I wonder if they do a right hand threaded eye for those that have a left hand lay tow rope.
As tension is placed on a traditionally laid rope it will tend to unspin, most ropes are laid up with a right twist so unspin to the left which would undo a righthand thread. You can get lefthand lay ropes however hence my earlier comment.
Worm and serve with the lay, parcel the other way. Strange what the brain remembers from school. ( Used when preparing ropes for use as handropes/rails )
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I just looked up what that all meant here Worm, parcel and serve - Wikipedia . Goodness, there is a word there that you wouldn't want to bandy about too freely even in the correct context these days.....
TBF I've always known it as cantline so the, umm, other from was a surprise.
For the locals - the road "Rope Walk" in Ipswich is where the ropes were made - standard length was 1000ft.
Never knew that @oldiebut goodie, spending most of my childhood in Ippy and going to the college there in the 80's along the said 'Rope walk'.
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I always used hard lay nylon as tow ropes, plenty of stretch for snubbing.
