Thanks! That was a nice visual, and almost had me thinking of having a Siamese Fighting fish on my desk. However, that idea will have to wait until The Move is over with, and by then, I may reconsider fish vs. catz.
Meanwhile, I talked them out of taking my blood pressure at the clinic. I stopped at Dollar Tree to get shower caps and just because I want them, they are out. So I’ll have to get one or two at Wally’s tomorrow, depending on how many are in the cheapest package. I’m putting coconut oil on my hair once a week overnight, and the elastic on the shower cap I have is past tense.
Then to Walgreen’s to drop of the prescription, and almost before I got out of the parking lot, I got a text. I didn’t read it until I got home. They need updated insurance information.
Then to Casey’s where I learned he was “on the other side of town,” which could mean anything, and got the same answer to my question that U-Haul gave: disengage the drive shaft. Unngh. I’ll research it.
“...same answer to my question that U-Haul gave: disengage the drive shaft.”
Towing a vehicle by one end, you don’t want the tires on the other end causing anything to turn that isn’t self-lubricating.
So, a typical old rear-wheel drive car with a standard transmission, you’d sick it in Nuetral and tow it by the front end. Having the rear wheels on the pavement only turns the rear axle, differential gears (self-lubricating), and the output shaft of the gearbox, also self-lubricating.
Same model with an automatic in it...you’d lock the steering straight, and tow it with the rear wheels off the ground. Towing it by the front end — even if you shift it into Neutral, first — leaves the rear wheels turning the axle, differential, drive shaft, and portions of the transmission that AREN’T self-lubricating. That’ll ruin an automatic transmission.