S13.75DET

at first i was really pissed and upset at myself because i know better, but it did make it 1600 miles without any issues. but now im happy that it happened on tow and not on a track day and after the car was painted causing more financial damage.

rijndenn

omg! not normal!

miamiman323

If it lifted 3 feet off the ground then it def. pole vaulted. It wouldnt just do that because the tires locked or else every time someone entered a turn with the e brake there ass end would jump lol.

S13.75DET

Okay. But it locked up before pole vaulting. What else would cause it to rip out of the subframe. It didn't just fall out. Nothing from the road jumped up and grabbed the damn thing. It locked up and since there was no driveshaft supporting the force, it ripped out of the subframe and pole vaulted the car.

there has to be a chicken before an egg

titangts

i dont understand why people say you shouldn't tow a RWD car with the Rear tires on the ground... correct me if i wrong.. but if you drive the fucking car the rear tires will do the exact same thing!?!?! roll forward as they are intended to do..

though the driveshaft should have been completely removed.. but the "fact" that you should have the drive wheels off the ground means nothing if the car isn't automatic.. cars are meant to roll.

Prime

The point is that LSD's tend to destroy themselves when towed in that fashion. Open diff car, shouldn't be a problem. But the LSD is going to be attempting to equalize force coming from the driveshaft by applying it to the wheels. I'm guessing the problem is with the force itself coming FROM the wheels. I'm no engineer, so I can't give you a perfect reason. Bottom line for me is, standard practice says don't do it, and it is standard practice for a reason.

RBvert

who cares WHY it happened? Everything is all dandy (minus the sub-frame, Diff and axles) no one got hurt because of how it was being towed so there is no need to lecture the OP about how he towed a RWD car with the drive wheels on the ground... I've towed my 85 Celica GTS with a LSD from a Mk II supra almost 3k miles with no problems.. s%#t happens randomly.

Imarvin240

DAMN! that blows! luckily when the car went sideways, there wasn't another car there.

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TheRealSy90

Are you ignorant? Like I said in my previous post. It's because of the piece of driveshaft you left connected to the differential. That piece will NOT stay "straight" while spinning at highway speeds. I don't care if you did "spin it and it didn't touch anything". It hit something in the road, twisting the diff backwards and fucking your shit up.

S13.75DET

im not ignorant. i know what happened. But thank you for the asshole-ish un-educated replys. the 2" piece that was spinning at full circumferance (4" circle) was 12" from the ground and wouldn't have touched a bowling ball if i ran over it. If it was spinning as you claim then it would have been banging against my unibody and i would have heard it and noticed damage to the both the cut piece and the unibody. And even if i did hit something it wouldn't cause the differential to lock up it would just bounce over it.

the purpose of this thread was not to figure out what happened but rather to educate people so that this doesn't happen to them.

s14unimog

someones hiding bones in the closet, the underside of your car is n-a-s-t-y, glad you didn't loose the entire car getting it to a hault. Crazy shit man, I foresee a stereotypical inspirational poster in your future...

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