Re: Just another "Can I tow it?" thread....or am I going to hate life doing it?
Re: Just another "Can I tow it?" thread....or am I going to hate life doing it?
Thanks to everyone's replies.....I ended putting off the trip until this week, thankfully. While I have little experience driving in snow, I'm not a complete virgin to it. And with the 5-6" we got on the Cape over the past weekend, from the storm I was fretting about driving through, I did managed to get some "practice" in with it Sat. and Sun.---at least until I got thrown out of the parking lot I was "practicing" in. (Guess the cops around here just have no sense of humor about a Southern boy playing in the snow at the Marconi Beach parking lot...huge, empty lot this time of year.)
About the Murano. True, it has a CVT trans and the tranny does choose the best rpm for its current speed/load/etc. Unnerving at first, but kinda neat now. No shifting at all, just high or low rpm's. Kind of weird when you stomp on the gas and the engine zooms up to 6200 rpm and the thing takes off....and no other feeling comes through except just getting faster as it accelerates. Keep your foot on the floor and the engine stays at 6200 rpm or there abouts, until you let off a bit. Then, rpm's drop off to something more appropriate.
Yes, the trans uses a metal "chain" or "belt", and have heard both terms used for it, but I think the preferred term is belt because the belt, while made of what looks like a chain, is wider than a normal chain would be...a single row of links and rollers. The CVT belt, on the other hand, is several rows of links and rollers, hence wider than a normal chain and gives rise to it being called a belt.
When I hear chain, I tend to think of bicycle chains or anchor chains. Metal chain belts make me think of these:
But according to Nissan, the belt, while metal, is somewhat different, if you can see what I mean with this rather simplistic cutaway diagram Nissan shows for their CVT:
So I don't know if Nissan's CVT is properly called using a chain within it....more a metal belt.
As for the fishing around the Cape, my father-in-law has been a wealth of info, as he's been here for all his life and has fished darned near every body of wet on the Cape, the Gull pond included. He's trying to get me to get "into" small mouths and rainbows---I've mostly been a large mouth bass and striper fisherman since I lived near a major impoundement most of my life down in GA.....Clark's Hill reservoir. Guess I'm going to have to go through a change in mindset.
But I do appreciate all the replies and answers. I'm tentatively scheduled to pull out Wednesday night and arrive some time Thursday, late. Pick up the boat early Friday AM and head back, trying to keep ahead of the snow scheduled to be hitting WI on Friday. Hopefully, this week will be a little tamer than last week.
