Originally Posted by
daleWV
I respectfully disagree in the case of the F5MBD transmission used in the manual Mirage. If you look at the design of the power flow, with the engine off and the transmission in neutral and the car being towed, the transmission output shaft is spinning and 3rd, 4th, and 5th driven gears which are splined directly to the output shaft are also spinning. These gears will pick up lubrication and spread it to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th drive gears on the transmission input shaft and their needle bearings will be lubed. Nothing else will be spinning on the input shaft so no other lubrication is needed for it. The spinning output shaft end bearings will be lubricated in their normal manner as well as the 1st and 2nd driven gear needle bearings (remember any time the car is moving the entire output shaft is turning). Additionally oil from the differential section of the transaxle is bathing the transmission output shaft indirectly through the final drive gears also. IMHO I can really so no reason attributable to the transmission why the manual Mirage couldn't be flat towed.