when towing a rear wheel drive should you remove the drive shaft or simply put it up backwards?

If it has an automatic transmission, you can either remove the driveshaft or tow it with the rear wheels off the ground. Tester

My curiousity has been activated, can you describe what you mean “put it up backwards” perhaps you mean put the car “up backwards”. About towing rear wheel drive autos. If you need to move the car or truck 100 yards so as that you can get it to a place to work on it or load it up, it will not be a …

If it has a manual tranny you can simply put it in neutral and use a tow bar. The lubricant in manual trannys and differentials does not need to be cooled, is not pumped and used as a hydraulic fluid, or anything of the sort. It’s simply drawn up by the turning gears to lubricate the parts inside, a…

This is true only for a short distance tow. One should not tow a rwd vehicle a long distance with the rear wheels up in the air.

Let’s say I wanted to tow an auto tranny car a relatively short distance with all 4 wheels on the ground. What speed should I not exceed? How many miles could I go? I’m thinking hypothetically, such as if my car broke down just a few miles from my house.

From all the varying opinions on here, I’d say, if possible, just request they bring a flat bed, if you’re having someone else tow it somewhere

It depends on the vehicle. The last one I remember was a GM vehicle. With the automatic transmission and on all four wheels being towed, the max speed was 15 MPH for no longer than five miles. Tester

Why in the world would you want to put more work on yourself than needed. On a RWD just tow it with the rear wheels off the ground. The steering wheel is a cinch, either run the seat belt through and around it or a piece of rope tied to it then close it in the door with both ends of the rope stick…

Towing a rear wheel drive

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kizwiki December 31, 2010, 1:39am 5

You are half-right. I think you are thinking of an all-wheel drive vehicle, which should be put up onto a flatbed rather than towed. A rear-wheel drive vehicle should be towed backwards so that the undriven front wheels contact the ground if a flat-bed is not used. The reverse is also true.

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