Idling engine while towing questions
..We now have two toads: DW's daily driver, a Kia Sedona van (that has Remco lube pump to allow towing), and my daily driver, a Ford Fusion Hybrid (flat-towable from the factory, woohoo!) Reality is...
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Not sure if this info is still needed but you most definitely are pumping fluid through your transmission cooler at idle and it is scary that the dealer could not answer that question. Very scary. The only thing I would question is if your getting enough lubrication at high speeds and the reason I do is most trucks won't let your engine RPMs drop down to regular idle if you slip the transmission into neutral while driving down the highway at higher speeds it keeps them up above 1000 and the reason why is to ensure good lubrication to that transmission at those RPMs now that being said I have driven many of vehicles that will let the RPMs drop all the way down to regular idle at high speeds when slipped into neutral. My initial opinion on your situation is that you would be okay and I would believe the manufacturers take that very thing into consideration while tuning the vehicle they do at least with the GM trucks. I hope I shed some light on it for you and did not just cause more questions.
My 03 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 4.7 l V8 and auto trans will go to reg idle rpm at highway speeds when slipped into neutral. My 04 Silverado 2500 HD with 6.0 gas 4L80E trans will only let it go to regular rpm idle if road speeds are low. My 04 Silverado HD with Duramax and Allison is another story all together now I am not sure exactly what happened maybe someone can answer my question, one night while out of town working me and my brother were out looking for some back roads trying to have some fun and for some reason I got going about 50 or 60 and put the trans in neutral and let it cost no throttle and after the truck slowed to around 15 or 20 mph it straight to up just about locked up now I'm almost 100 percent positive it was in neutral my brother was kinda thinking more guessing I put it in reverse this was in my younger dumber days when I did used to do a little buzzed driving but it was maybe 2 or 3 beers at most over 2 hours period so that is the small chance he could be right. I am pretty dang certain though it was neutral just out of curiosity has anyone experienced this?
I am sure Willald or others may find this information useful, but I wasn't sure if you're aware that you are responding to a post that's 11 years old. Willald hasn't been on here in in a while.
If you have a question, you may want to post a new topic. You won't get much traction on a response buried in an 11 year old post.
