u need to flat bed the car. unless the center diff has a mechanical lubrication setup like some 4x4 diffs. you can only town certain awd/4x4 vehicles. it can do damage

 

+2 ... you can push the car in neutral as long as 4 wheels are allowed to spin ...
I don't know where the rest of you get your crazy ideas from ... please try not to spread rumors ...

 

the thing is all the 3 wheels rolled at the same speed but the one on the left didn't because I bent the wheel and it got stuck...so i just wondering if only 3 wheels were spinning is okie?

 

get a damn flat bed.. if its a rear, no, youll screw up the diff. if its a front without lsd, then you could, but you said its a rear, so no.. put the spare on or get it towed..

 

I think it will be cheaper to get it flatbed tow, rather than riskin the diff. This is a good question though, I was just asking my homeboy about this not too long ago.

 

I don't think people understand exactly why you can't conventionally tow an awd car. It is because two wheels are spinning, and two are not. If you flat tow the car, or push the car it will not mess anything up. What do you think you are doing while you are coasting? It is essentially the same.

 

Sigh, if you can't push the car while on the surface with all 4 wheels, why you are putting the gear in netural when you are about to stop (if you are not engine braking the car)?

Or as dsevo said, coasting.

 

If all four wheels are on the ground you can push or pull the friggen thing as long as you want.

 

This only works while in reverse with the left blinker and rear windshield wiper on. You also have to be sure to push it 50% of the way and pull it the other 50% of the way. Otherwise you better call Shep for a rebuild.

 

No, because the wheel opposite will want to turn twice as fast to compensate.

 

yes... you can push it fast too. just have someone steering.

 

All you people saying don't tow with two wheels, have you ever jacked up the car to see if the ACD is locked with the car off? A good portion of the time the differential is unlocked when driving. I am guessing that it is also unlocked when the ignition is off. In which case you could tow with the rear wheels on the ground. Or put the key to "on", pull the ebrake up one click unlocking the diff and tow away.

I have never put the car in the air to see if the diff is locked when turned off but it might be an interesting thing for someone to find out.

03 and 04 models with the viscous diff should only be towed at very very slow speeds with two wheels down. Preferably not at all. But the ACD cars can theoretically be completely FWD at times and thus towed with two wheels down.

 

i believe someone said that the ebrake etc methods of turning off the acd so to speak, do not acutally UNCOUPLE the differential... and the differential can never be fully 100% uncoupled but that it just puts it in a very low ratio and prevents the acd from throwing full lock on.

so since there is no uncoupling of the diff... you are breaking or rather wearing something, technically even more so than if you were towing slowly with a vcd which should never be done.

 

i understand that all questions should be answered fairly and all, and not to be bashed but, if u can take ur car out of gear in on the highway and be fine, then u should be alright with a couple of joe schmoes pushing ur car. just dont have the incredicle hulk pick up the front of ur car while ur doing this!

 

then I must have messed up the differential how can you check if you messed up teh diferential?....