Re: Towing an 86 4kq

[grubster@megsinet.net (Martin Gruby)]

At 12:33 PM 10/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
I believe for towing a 4-wheel drive vehicle you must have all four wheels
off the ground for a long distance.  Keeping the engine off and pulling the
car is bad for the transmission and I believe it can ruin it. If you tow it
for a short distance it is OK. But don't go 100's of miles.  My friend's
Jeep Cherokee has a thing that disengages the transmission so it can be
towed.  You need to get a trailer to put the car on. 


>I don't think there should be any problems as long as the 4 wheels are
>on
>the ground - after all, this is how your car works every day.  Damage
>might
>occur if the car is towed with two wheels on the air which are not
>allowed
>to turn. This would cause the spider gears in the center diferential to
>spin rapidly and continuously, a function they were not designed to do -
>kind of like launching a 2wd car with one wheel spinning and the other
>not.
>
>Luis Marques
>marques@ti.com
>
>--- Steve wrote:
>> 
>> Can an 86 4kq be towed with all four wheels down while in neutral?
>> 
>> I thought I read about damage being done when towed by a wrecker.  OTOH,
>> the guys that race their 84 4kq in Kansas say they tow their car all over
>> the midwest on all four behing a 5ktq.
>