this is what happens to your rear end when you towed your car witout oil in case...

 

You didn't actually tow your car without oil in the rear end did you? Thats some pretty bad damage there. Completely stripped the pinion and destroyed the bearings on the pinion, wow.

 

Was in the process of moving. Had to get out of my house within three days. Got the running car on a trailer and this one on a dolly, Dahhh!. Got about halfway to the new house fell snapp and slight jerk on the truck. Got home and realize how dome a moment I had... Got an SE rear end laying around???

 

In the oldene dayes when I was hauling race cars around, sometimes on a dolly, we would either put the back on the dolly and haul it backwards, or disconnect the driveshaft. Why? Because someone blew his transmission once and discovered that the transmission only pumped gearlube around properly when the input shaft was rotating the correct direction. YMMV.

 

To avoid that, I put the rear wheels of my fb up when I towed it. Well, that and the fact that it's an auto. Looks expensive.

 

I have pulled provably about a hundred cars always aware of the effects of pulling. Long distance I have always disconect the drive shaft because of the effect to the tranny, mainly auto trannies. But have been aware of the damage. For short distances, which is what this towed was all about, (32 miles), i just placed the car on the dolly and got it where it needed to go. In this case it was more of a brain anomaly, dumbass sysndrome!

 

Yes...............and by yes I mean no. Sucks to hear but **** happens

 

that is all jacked up dude. hind sight being 20/20 you'll know to check the diff fluid level more often.

 

This car has been in my garage the last two years for a complete rebuild. Everything from the ground up, to include new rear end, bearings, seals, gears. It did not had any fluid in it because it was not due to be on the road for a few more months. This happen last summer. This weekend I decided to do the swap since the engine was done. Took everything apart and the pictures tell the story. Here are some otherrs of the car itself.

 

What does this means that you have and need or that you don"t have aand are trying to be dick about it.

 

That hurts to look at, Carlos.

 

Holy chrome Batman! Nice looking engine man, to bad about the rear end...

 

What hurt the most is that I could have gotten a couple of rear ends and I let them pass because I though I had one in the shop. Now I can not find one anywhere...

 

You should have at least dumped some motor oil in there. Motor oil won't do the job with the engine powering the car, but would have saved that rearend from dying a painful death.

As for disconnecting the driveshaft, I always advise that to be done, as I have seen a trans get messed up towing less than 5 miles.

 

It is not that i neglect to put oil in it. Is the fact that i got a dumb attack and forgot that I did not had any oil in it. Like I said the car is in the building stage. Luckily for me I found one earlier today and should be able to send for it by next week.

 

I'm glad to hear that you found another rear end. That really sucks. We all have those dumb moments, I'm just sorry to hear that yours costed you an entire rear end.

 

I just towed my 85se ~150 miles and opted for the full trailer method. Mine doesn't run (see my threads about the Oil Cooler fiasco) and hasn't been driven in years so I bought a $20 manual winch and hand-drove her on to the trailer. Too many threads about disconnecting the drive shafter works sometimes and others "the above" happens. I'm pretty new to working on cars but isn't your damage relatively easy to fix assuming you can find those parts?