ChainSawOnSteroids

? Rear wheels on the ground? Distance is approx 100 miles.

QuackDamnYou

Here's what the owners manual says:



TOWING



Proper lifting or towing equipment is necessary to prevent damage to the vehicle during any towing operation. State and local laws blah blah blah...



With Manual Transmission:

If the transmission, rear axle and steering system are not damaged, the vehicle may be towed on all four wheels. If these components are damaged, use a towing dolly.



With Automatic Transmission:

If excessive damage or other conditions prevent towing the vehicles with the driving wheels off the ground, use wheel dollies. The vehicle may be towed only forward with all 4 wheels on the ground. In this case, do no exceed 30mph and/or a distance of 10 miles or transmission damage could result.



If towing speed will exceed 30mph, or if the towing distance will exceed 10 miles, use on of the three methods:

1.) Place the rear wheels on a dolly.

2.) Tow with the rear wheels off the ground.

3.) Disconnect the propeller shaft. (WTF is this?)



If the transmission or rear axle are inoperative, tow with the rear wheels off the ground, or have the propeller shaft disconnected.



Caution: Please be advised that the shift lever must be set at NEUTRAL, the ignition key in the "ACC" position and the parking brake released (No ****, Sherlock) .

Remember that the power assist for the brakes and steering (if equipped) will not be available when the engine is inoperative. (Did you go to school, dumbass?)





Hope this helps...I'd use wheel dollies, myself...

1988RedT2

If you have a truck to pull it, U-Haul rents an auto carrier that will get 4 wheels off the ground. Looks kinda like this:

In2tuners

propeller shaft is the drive shaft. You remove it so not to damage the trans. And yes yopu can use a tow dolly bc thats how i got mine from georga to north carolina

ChainSawOnSteroids

thanks for replies, but i didnt get a solid response to my question.

my car is an 86 manual i have a two wheel lift dolly, i have a gxl with LSD rear diff, i am towing it over 100miles with the rear wheels on the ground, will that cause any damage?

1979rx7

no ,bout just to be safe remove driveshaft

Jonlax

a friend and member of this web page towed a T2 from indiana to the eastern most portion of PA. That is a 12 hour drive. The car is back and everything seems to be fine. It says in the manual to remove the drive shaft. If you do that you should be fine.

iceblue

Been there done that, here is what you need to know.



1. Have a vehical capable of doing such a task. Braking is the bigest concern.

2. Put boards down on the ramps because the car wont clean just the ranps and you will fubar your bumper up.

3. Check check again pull out turn stop check again.

4. 1 to 10 mi stop and check again.

5. "optional" check at half way.



Of cource check for lights. Put the car in nutral and thats it. Automatic unhook drive shaft to keep from burning up trans.

rx7man629

HA i am the one that drove to indiana, he is right you do need to put boards on the ramps to make it less steep. If you have a manual trans make sure its in neutral with the e brake off. You will not ruin the differential or the trans or anything else. Yea it was a gruelling 12 hour drive each way but it was well worth it because i now own my first turbo RX7.

1988RedT2

If you do use the dolly, be sure to stop as noted above and check the wheel straps after a few miles. I used a dolly to tow a car across town and the straps had worked pretty near loose by the time I got where I was going. And remember that a truck towing an RX-7 doesn't handle quite as well as an RX-7.