Flat Towing a Manual Wrangler

"If you own a Wrangler, you should know a little about the Jeep if you plan to be off road with it, more than what the manual says for sure."
Well, let's see...
How well do I know Jeeps...
I have installed the Warn full floating axle kit in a Tuxedo Park CJ5...
I know how to drive an M151A1 with a broken rear axle shaft... in viet nam...
I have helped install an AirRock kit in a Rubicon...
I have driven an M38A1, an M170 field ambulance, an M151 plus the A1 and A2; I have owned CJ5s, C101 Jeepster Commandos, a CJ7 and a couple of Wranglers, and I was a mechanic in the Seabees...
Oh, yeah, and just to be different I had a 1959 Land Rover!
Off road? well, yeah...
California; red lake trail
Moab, UT; Metal Masher, Moab Rim, Top of the World, Long Canyon, Elephant Hill, and others.
Northwestern MT; Lost Johnny Creek road, Connor creek road, Doris Creek road, Lion Mountain trail, and others (EASY stuff!)
So, yeah, I been there did that got the scratches on the paintwork.

Ok I'll give it a try here. The Jeep (among others) can be towed because the transfer case has an internal lube pump driven by the output chaft. Also the internal chain slings lube around inside. The reason for the transmission in either park (auto) or in gear is to keep transmission parts from rotating.
The lube viscosity can cause unconnected internal gears, shafts to start to rotate with speed, thus you put them in Park or in gear to prevent this.

PaulJ2 wrote:
Ok I'll give it a try here. The Jeep (among others) can be towed because the transfer case has an internal lube pump driven by the output chaft. Also the internal chain slings lube around inside. The reason for the transmission in either park (auto) or in gear is to keep transmission parts from rotating.
The lube viscosity can cause unconnected internal gears, shafts to start to rotate with speed, thus you put them in Park or in gear to prevent this.

Thanks for the explanation, Paul.

PaulJ2 wrote:
Ok I'll give it a try here. The Jeep (among others) can be towed because the transfer case has an internal lube pump driven by the output chaft. Also the internal chain slings lube around inside. The reason for the transmission in either park (auto) or in gear is to keep transmission parts from rotating.
The lube viscosity can cause unconnected internal gears, shafts to start to rotate with speed, thus you put them in Park or in gear to prevent this.

This is exactly right.

The trans is in gear to prevent the internal parts from rotating. The bearings would seize up due to the gear oil not circulating.