Lube pumps for towing

As fewer and fewer vehicles are towable, as built, you may get your wish.

When OEMs don't provide a service, third party providers will.

j-d is right. The number of people who want to tow is a drop in the bucket to car manufacturers and they are not going to make their decisions to please us. Hence the disappearance of some great towable vehicles. At one time all Hondas were towable, Acura MDX, Ford Escape, etc. No more. The towable vehicle with auto trans is an endangered species.

I wish that Remco or somebody else would make lube pumps to fit a wider array of vehicles.

I am neither engineer nor economist. But in this case I'm more economist and I believe an inexpensive (CVT!) transmission is far more important to Detroit and Japan than a tow-able one. Simply not enough potential buyers. Actually, I believe tow-ability is merely an acceptable consequence of an engineering design that wasn't built around tow-ability.
I sincerely doubt that any automotive manufacturer cares about four-down towing as they develop their products. The hard-core Wrangler, maybe. We'll see...

don: Where did you see that tidbit? Maybe it was just someone's wishful thinking? Those new trannies help Honda with fuel efficiency. More mfrs. are using that type of transmission every year. AFAIK there is no way to make that tranny towable. I hope I am wrong!

Moisheh

Read somewhere that Honda is making the CRV towable again,possibly for the '16 model

Although the Lube pump is a good piece of equipment unless something has changed the warranty sucks. I think you have to either send them the tranny or they have someone inspect it. I just remember it is a hassle.

Moisheh

Thanks so much for the replies to multiple part toad question. Hoping for more thoughts to help us decide some things.

..Regardless what you decide, there are a few important things to consider, when reading all the posts from people that claim to have seen 'failures' of lube pumps, and won't use one as a result:

Yes, a lube pump is one more thing that can go wrong. HOWEVER, contrary to what you read from some folks, 99% of the time when/if a Remco lube pump fails, you are NOT going to fry a transmission, as long as everything was initially installed correctly. Worst case, you might be 'inconvenienced' for a while (have to drive toad separately) until issue is resolved, but that is about it.

It is a 'myth' some folks have started, that a Remco pump failure will fry a transmission. Does not really happen anymore, with the new design Remco uses. That 'myth' probably started several years ago back when that was indeed a risk. Its not so much anymore, with the monitor panel/box Remco uses.

Remco provides a monitor/control box for the pump that mounts to dash of your Motorhome. It connects to the lube pump, and to a pressure sensor on output side of the lube pump. If pressure drops, or pump stops (or is not) running, you get a loud beeping and red light coming on to let you know something is wrong. As long as you pull over within a few miles and quit towing until the issue is resolved, you are NOT going to hurt your transmission. Regardless what all the doom-preachers say, haha. :)

Also, something else nobody really talks about, when it comes to a Remco transmission pump: They (Remco) are confident enough in their product, that THEY provide a warranty for your transmission, that will cover the cost of repair/replacement to such for 40,000 miles from the time you install a Remco pump on it. Soo, there is at least some security there, that you will be covered in the case of a total (and highly unlikely) disaster.

To answer your other specific questions: No, Remco pump will NOT necessarily work for any/all automatic transmission vehicles. You'll have to go to their web page and look your specific vehicle up on their web site to see if they have a model that will work for the vehicle you have or are considering.

As to warranty being voided: As I already said, Remco provides their own warranty for their product, and your transmission. However, if you do have a transmission failure, there is the chance that the vehicle manufacturer will use the lube pump as an excuse to refuse to cover the transmission repair. However, I seriously, seriously doubt, all things considered, if this has EVER happened.

We used a Remco lube pump for a while, on a Kia minivan we used to tow. It worked fine for the most part, once we straightened out some mistakes made with installation (dealer that did installation got to take care of those). Ultimately we quit towing that vehicle 'cause we got one that was easier and simpler to tow, a Ford Fusion Hybrid. However, I'd have no problem going with a lube pump again, if we ever wanted to flat tow a vehicle that could not be towed any other way.

Bumpyroad wrote:
I would NEVER buy a vehicle for a toad that required such modification.
bumpy

Good for you>

Some folks what to tow what they already own hence the reason products are available to allow such use.

Cost/risk=====benefit

I would NEVER buy a vehicle for a toad that required such modification.
bumpy