Originally Posted by
RPGreg2600
Why would you need to remove the driveshaft? That's only for full time 4wd vehicles. Put it in 2wd and transfer case and transmission in neutral. If it has free wheel hubs, unlock them.
Well, let me tell you the story of the day I brought my 109 home on a tow dolly...
I had everything in neutral so I didn't bother to disconnect the driveshaft. After all, I was only towing it about 35 miles. So...5 miles from my house as I'm stopping at a traffic light at a pretty major intersection just outside of the city, I feel something...odd. I wasn't sure what I felt...until the light turned green and the tow vehicle bogged down trying to accelerate away from the stop light with a million angry motorists behind us.
I thought this simple tow job killed my wife's 4 Runner as it had all it could do to get out of the travel lane and onto the side of the road. It wasn't till I was finally on the shoulder and about to pop the hood on my wife's car when I noticed the skid marks from the stop line at the intersection leading directly to the rear tires on the 109.
The rear wheels locked up for reasons unknown to me at the time. So there I was, on the side of the road, in the dirt, removing the driveshaft that should have already been off.
In the end, something probably wasn't in neutral and decelerating at the traffic light encouraged the other thing to come out of neutral and slip into gear. This was day one that I took ownership of this 109. It's been 15 years of the same ever since...
--Mark
1973 SIII 109 RHD 2.5NA Diesel
0-54mph in just under 11.5 minutes
(9.7 minutes now that she's a 3-door).