I had a K1500 Chevy where a tooth on the planetary gear broke-off. I was less than 100yds from home and this god awful noise started. I could only imagine the noise that this thing endured before it died.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
Pick up the totaled Wrangler for 10K . Drop 35K for a hemi conversion and have a great vehicle for 50K. Way cheaper than doing the conversion on an operable one.

'Or', buy a 2020 salvage auction Jeep with rear end damage, and swap the motor, tranny, and transfer case from it into this one and have a virtually new/stock Jeep for $30k. Best of all, that would be a fun project.

Many moons ago while living in student housing, a moving truck pulled up next door with a car in tow. My new neighbor worked his way over to my place where I was changing my brakes. He asked if I knew about cars. I said ‘reluctantly’. He asked if I could tell him why his transmission wouldn’t work. I walked over and asked how far he towed his auto trans rear wheel drive car on a tow dolly with the drive shaft installed. He said 2000 miles, but declared the trans was in neutral. I told him it doesn’t matter. He’ll need a new transmission. Face fades to white....

She Blowed up!

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
Beancooker,

How do you like your new toy so far?
I've always wanted one but never took the plunge.

Absolutely loving it. Wife loves it as well. Enough that next month we are taking a road trip through Nevada, into Death Valley on our way to Santa Monica. Definitely should be fun.

Never had the luck to torch an entire drivetrain. But I have had 2 engines give up while driving them before once was a 69 Buick wildcat my friend and I swapped cars for the day and I was on my way to trade back. He had used my van to move. He neglected to tell me he was using a quart of oil per gas fill up. Well it nuked on the freeway. I jammed the trans into N and coasted to the next off ramp. This was pre cell phone days and I had to call him from 7-11 pay phone as well as AAA to get towed.

Another was my 72 blazer. A connecting rod broke at freeway speed and the rod and piston launched through the bottom of the oil pan it broke the cylinder wall to the point it couldn’t even be sleeved. V8 block was scrap iron. I bought a new engine then sold the rig.

I don't RV and haven't towed anything more than an old Triumph, standard transmission, into the garage. Therefore my question: how does one tow a jeep behind an RV? I understand disconnecting the driveshafts but surely there is a better way. Trailer?

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Originally posted by SPWAMike0317:
I don't RV and haven't towed anything more than an old Triumph, standard transmission, into the garage. Therefore my question: how does one tow a jeep behind an RV? I understand disconnecting the driveshafts but surely there is a better way. Trailer?

There is. To flat tow a Jeep, you put the transfer case into neutral which essentially disconnects the driveshafts. The transmission is then shifted into gear. I have a manual Jeep. There are a few more steps involved, but that's the gist of it.

This Jeep owner in the OP likely thought that he was in Neutral on the transfer case. Should've double and triple checked. It's an easy mistake to make.

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how does one tow a jeep behind an RV? I understand disconnecting the driveshafts but surely there is a better way. Trailer?

Very few people pull drive shafts on passenger type cars. Heavy duty trucks will often have their drive shaft or axle shafts removed when being towed.

Some vehicles, Jeeps are a good example, are built to be flat towed. You put a tow bar on the front and hitch it to your RV. The towed vehicle rolls on all 4 of its own wheels in neutral.

The majority of passenger vehicles can not be towed this way. Without the engine running the transmission isn't pumping fluid through it. As the wheels roll, the drive shaft turns, and the transmission has rotating parts without proper lubrication.

Option two is to use a tow dolly. These work best with front or rear wheel drive vehicles. You put the drive side on the dolly, and the non drive side on the road.

Option three is a trailer.

This exact situation is my recurring nightmare when we tow our Jeep behind our RV. It's on my checklist twice!

There wasn’t even a crease in the car payment book yet