Originally Posted by dcm013
Bob, what's different about the Opel manual trans. that allows you to tow it w/o disconnecting the driveshaft?
I can't imagine it has an oil pump. Is the lube level high enough to oil the bearings?
Don
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Opel says in the FSM's that you only have to disconnect the driveshaft if it's an automatic. Definitely not an oil pump in there!
Knowing that the oil pan is nearly flat and the gear oil fill plug is a decent distance from the bottom of the pan, there's probably a lot of oil slinging going on there. I have never confirmed this firsthand, but I can check tomorrow as I have a 4-speed torn down I can measure.
I do know of one former Opel rally driver who towed his Opel on a car dolly to every event he ran over 8 years. Closest rally to him was 60 miles away, but one year he towed from Virginia to Maine nonstop with no issues, I'd guess 700 miles each way.