Can you push start an automatic truck?

[bowman316]

What would happen if you were driving say 20 mph, and turned the engine off and put the transmission in neutral. Then turned the ignition back on (but not the engine). Then you put the transmission back in drive.

what would happen? if the transmission was in drive when the enigne was not on, with the wheels moving?
would that be like popping the clutch?

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Zip! Nada! Automatics in the last several decades lack the rear fluid pumps that allowed earlier automatics to be push started.

 

[MTboatguy]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Nope, Nada, nothing...

 

[bowman316]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

so doing that would not hurt the transmission?
it would just do nothing

 

[dlindeblad]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

so doing that would not hurt the transmission?
it would just do nothing

Soooo, did you let the son borrow the car and it came back broke?

Kidding aside, it should not hurt anything.

 

[BlkY2k]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

The pump wont be pushing fluid. I wouldn`t do it. G/L

 

[rbh]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

+4 on the nope.

 

[PiratePast40]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

A Chevy station wagon made in the 60's will in fact restart AND blow the muffler off the car. It also leaves an inquisitive teenager with a lot of explaining to do!

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

What you are talking about is the same as towing the vehicle. They have a limit on how far you can go without burning up the transmission. Without the rear fluid pump, not only will it not jump start, it will fry the transmission after XX number of miles.

 

[JRJ]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Watch out for that locking steering wheel

Used to think it was good fun to turn the engine off on old 850 Fords....made quite a bang when they re-lit :redface:

 

[thefairlaneman]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

It wont work.but I wonder why in the world you would even want to do that?

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

A Chevy station wagon made in the 60's will in fact restart AND blow the muffler off the car. It also leaves an inquisitive teenager with a lot of explaining to do!

You forgot to add "DAMHIK".... ("Don't ask me how I know")...

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

A Chevy station wagon made in the 60's will in fact restart AND blow the muffler off the car. It also leaves an inquisitive teenager with a lot of explaining to do!

So will a Pontiac. The teenage driver driving his Dad's car didn't do it but some idiot sitting in the passenger seat did. I didn't have any explaining to do.

 

[PGFISHER]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Old joke. Man tells his wife to push start him with her car, but explains that his automatic won't start 'till he's doing 35 MPH. He looks in the mirror to see her coming at him at 35 MPH.

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

you forgot to add "damhik".... ("don't ask me how i know")...:d

:d:d:d

 

[kmk_7110]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

used to do that with an old ford escort, but i beat the crap outa that car. went thru 2 transmissions and a lot of tires in a matter of about a year and half

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Is this a "Hey! Hold my beer, now watch this" moment?

 

[BuzzStPoint]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

Don't know about recent vehicles.
But I can tell you I had a 1983 Impala with a 305 and a TH350 trans can infact be push started.

In high school we talked about this and decided to try it. We had to get the car up to about 45mph before the engine would turn and fire up. Didn't matter if it would have wrecked it. The car was on it's way to be a demo derby car.

 

[1fishbone]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

I had an 80's chevy and had to start it that way.
Don't know about the new trucks.

 

[produceguy]

Re: Can you push start an automatic truck?

I dont think it would come out of drive at that speed. No you can not push start an automatic car or truck.