Jeeze, maybe I'm missing something here.
Get a 12pt socket tool and remove the drive axles.  Seriously, this takes
all of 20 to 30 minutes.
Then you can tow your automatic a thousand miles at 100 mph.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Marshall Ruskin
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 12:19 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: towing concerns...
>
>
> What I am wondering is....
>
> Why not tow it with the rear end on dollies?
>
> Every tow truck driver here in Manitoba has them by law- perhaps I am
> missing something germain to this?
>
> Or - why not tow it backwards, with the the driven wheels up in the air?
>
> Any information here would enlighten me - as I am in the dark on this.
>
> Marshall Ruskin
>
>
> >Maybe I'm stupid...but why do you need to remove the rear axles
> if you are
> towing it with the rear up?  How hard is it to
> >remove the rear axles...  How short is a short distance...25 miles...10
> miles? 2 miles?
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:06:21 -0400, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:07:27 -0400 EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET> writes:
> >>>    Tow it home. If it is an atuomatic you will need to limit your
> >>> distance and speed, or remove the rear axles. If I'm ever broke down
> >>> at any distance away from home this is what I'll do rather than have
> >>> a butcher mechanic repair my Van knowing he will never see you
> >>> again.
> >>>
> >>>             Eric                   86-VW4x4
> >>>             vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
> >>>             Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
> >>>
> >
> >
> >--peace--
> >   stu and ginger and jasmine
> >   Arlington, VA
> >   1991 Westy (MZ MAGIC)
> >
>