95 super subbie Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 i got a loyale for free i dont know what year it is about 90/91 i push button four wheel drive 5 speed no title, its about 25 miles from home we got to roll over but wont fire its going to be a derby car the only way to get it home is to tow it with my 95 awd legacy 5 speed i done it before towing a horizon for only 2 miles. what i worrying about big time is the road that im going to be towing on is like this / up and down it just a old 2 lane paved road the speed limit is only 40 will my awd 95 legacy 5 speed car have enough NUTS to tow the loyale up the big hills, if i leave my car in 1st and have the pedal to the floor and keep the rpms up around 4 1/2 rpms and i not joking the hills are like this / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerhunter Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Good for you but remember there's no such thing as a free lunch. It may be easier to pay someone a twenty or so to tow it for you when you consider the wear, tear and extra fuel for the legacy. That or the cost of a fender bender or an irate county mounty. As for it not catching check the usual- fuel, coil connections, plug wires and maybe someone else who was waiting to buy the car moved the distributer to discourage other people from wanting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95 super subbie Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 As for it not catching check the usual- fuel, coil connections, plug wires and maybe someone else who was waiting to buy the car moved the distributer to discourage other people from wanting it. unless they knew were it was in the middle of know where the drive way is they only one around for miles the drive way looks worse than a field road, go out the drive up and over a mountain to where the guy house is and they the car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95 super subbie Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 so do you think my car will have enough Nuts to pull the loyale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnW Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Don't do it. Have it towed it if its worth owning, make it run where it is, or pass on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Well, there is the issue of legality, which I'll leave up to you, and safety on those hills -- I assume you are talking about flat towing it with a driver in the loyale to brake? Without the engine running, going DOWN the hills is what I'd worry about. How good are the brakes in the loyale with no power braking? Legacies have alot of power compared to a loyale, and should be able to tow it at 15mph or so easy. I use my GL wagon to push other cars around sometimes, and it'll push another GL wagon up a hill fine (okay, I went 20 feet, but getting it started is the hardest part anyway). Remember, towing ratings are based on towing it at highway speed. To give you an idea of what you can do if you are okay with being slow (and nuts), a friend of mine towed a 16,000 lbs school bus half a mile up a fairly steep dirt road with an old 4 cylinder toyota pickup -- going 5mph in low range, and getting it started on a flat spot at the bottom. If you don't want to actually maintain highway speed, and don't have to start on a hill (which could toast the clutch), it'll be fine. Legal, I don't know. Putting it on a tandem axle trailer would be totally legal, but I wouldn't even think about pulling that with a legacy -- the trailer would weight at least as much as the loyale, and the combo would be more than the legacy ( = very bad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95 super subbie Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 well we got it home saftey instead of towing it home we got some guy to put it on his trailer and take it to my house for only 25$ and that is about 25 miles one way from our house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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