Would like to rent one of these to tow my Jeep about 150 miles for a wheeling trip. I know jeeps can be flat towed, but could I tow it with a set up like this with the front axle on the trailer and the rear on the ground?
Can a Jeep be towed with one of these?
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Would like to rent one of these to tow my Jeep about 150 miles for a wheeling trip. I know jeeps can be flat towed, but could I tow it with a set up like this with the front axle on the trailer and the rear on the ground?
I'd probably at least disconnect the rear axle or better/best get a flatbed trailer.
How far and how often do you plan on doing this?
-Mac
How far and how often do you plan on doing this?
-Mac
I'd likely only do this once per year for a trip to glamis we do every February.
According to this link no you can't use a dolly. If you have your owners manual look it over.
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...anual-say-not-to-tow-the-tj-on-a-dolly.36353/
I flat tow mine with no issues.
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...anual-say-not-to-tow-the-tj-on-a-dolly.36353/
I flat tow mine with no issues.
stupid question, why would you not just flat tow it? seems like proper tow bar is cheap enough
I can't think of any reason towing it on the dolly would damage anything (assuming you put the t-case in neutral and do it properly) I would feel more comfortable from a stability standpoint flat towing, but the dolly would probably be "ok".
well thats going to be an interesting read. I cant imagine it would be that bad, I mean people do manual hubs all the time and you don't hear about catastrophic failure.
I read through that link and the conclusion of the group in that thread was that a TJ can be towed on a dolly.
Honestly I haven't looked into what I would need to do to set my Jeep up to flat tow it. I'm looking for the simplest solution for a trip coming up in just a few weeks.
You'd think at some point we could stop doing this. What is the difference between towing front wheels up on a tow dolly and running around full time unlocked in the front with a hub kit?
Because it's easy enough to do.
Had a friend who many many years ago was moving across country... flat towed their Jeep...packed it full of boxes... something fell and put it into gear. Nothing left of the transfer case, transmission or engine...old CJ5. So my anecdotal experience trending to overreacting.
If you say it's good then it's good.
Trying to decide between a 40'ish flatbed trailer for my TJ and my wife's JK...so we can take the truck and pickup camper...or flat towing the TJ and getting a rooftop tent. The answer is the JK has almost no towing capacity. Like to head north, south or east a couple of hours to expand our opportunities for wheeling without hotel and eating out costs.
-Mac
I did not set out to say or prove it is good. All I did was look at how many hub conversions we've installed over the years, how many I've run over the years and how many we see discussed on the forums. There is never any detrimental effect attributed to running one and in fact the opposite is true. There are a lot of folks with blown up transfer cases from the front driveshaft Double Cardan joint locking up that would still be just fine had they been running a hub kit.
That doesn't mean you should run a hub kit, just take care of your front driveshaft and keep it maintained.
Your tow scenario is confusing. Do you need both rigs or just one?
Both. I bought my TJ and my wife gets carsick if she's not driving. So if I wanted to do any wheeling with her it involved purchasing another Jeep.
-Mac
Towing with either a rented dolly or a U-Haul car hauler trailer will be fine.
I would prefer the trailer, but that's just my preference.
Which works best for you may be decided by U-Haul's willingness to hook it up to your tow rig. If your tow rig has adequate tow capacity for the trailer it becomes an option. If not, flat towing or towing with a dolly are your options.
I would prefer the trailer, but that's just my preference.
Which works best for you may be decided by U-Haul's willingness to hook it up to your tow rig. If your tow rig has adequate tow capacity for the trailer it becomes an option. If not, flat towing or towing with a dolly are your options.
What I discovered when I was doing the research to find the best way to get my new-to-me TJ home to N ID from the west coast.
The TJ is designed to flat tow just fine. The procedure to set the gears properly are in the owner's manual. That is one of the main reasons you see so many TJ's being flat towed behind RVs all over the place. The problem CJs had with being flat towed without disconnecting the rear driveline was the transfer case only had an oil flinger ring to lube the output bearings and that didn't really work while the transfer case was in neutral. That was fixed in the TJ transfer cases with a small internal oil pump to lubricate the output bearings. When the output yokes spin so does the little oil pump keeping all the bearings in the t-case lubricated.
The TJ is designed to flat tow just fine. The procedure to set the gears properly are in the owner's manual. That is one of the main reasons you see so many TJ's being flat towed behind RVs all over the place. The problem CJs had with being flat towed without disconnecting the rear driveline was the transfer case only had an oil flinger ring to lube the output bearings and that didn't really work while the transfer case was in neutral. That was fixed in the TJ transfer cases with a small internal oil pump to lubricate the output bearings. When the output yokes spin so does the little oil pump keeping all the bearings in the t-case lubricated.
My initial look at the thread (why does the owner's manual say not to tow the TJ on a dolly) provided led me to think the OEM is recommending not to utilize a dolly, however, after reading through the entire post/thread I see you mentioning utilizing a dolly won't cause damage.
If towing on a dolly caused any damage whatsoever, we could not run a hub kit in the front because that would cause the same exact damage.
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