It's not a matter of how much your vehicle can actually tow, it is about how well your braking system can hold up to the extra weight when stopping. U-haul has already been sued several times for renting tow dollies to people with underated vehicles. If there were no regulations to protect them for senseless lawsuits, you would see retards everyday trying to tow full size vans with a Kia Rio.

 

I still am having trouble understanding this type of statement.
I am not going to touch the spindle. It's got a big nut holding it into the hub bearing. The hub bearing is designed to hold all of the wheels portion of the vehicles weight. The axle does nothing except transfer the rotation of the ring gear to the wheel through the spindle. There are no bearings or clips or anything holding it in place except the ujoint. I'm just going to (only if I have to) remove the ujoint and the axle.
I think you guys are getting axle and spindle mixed up.

 

We are talking about the outer axle shaft (stub shaft). The smaller part that's bolted to your hub assembly. If you take that off with the axle shaft then the bearing will fall apart. If you take the axle shaft out and leave the stub shaft bolted to the bearing then you will be fine.

 

Thats what i figured. I have towed a 24 ft. saleboat behind a cherokee!
I towed another cherokee on a flatbed car trailer too! trailer had electric brakes of course. It's also not like I was going across the country with it either. Just about 6 hours round trip. I'm thinking I'm just gonna have to buy one someday.

 

Ahhh here we go. Thats stub is called a spindle according to the manuals. If I took that off I wouldn't be able to put the wheels back on as that is also where the flange for the rotor and wheels studs attach.
The specs call for that to be torqued and I just broke my wrench so I don't even want to mess with that if I can.
When I last replaced my ujoints I took the whole hub assemble and axles to my work bench and did it there. No need to mess with the big nut!

 

Unfortunately Jamie, you have to remove the big nut to remove the hub bearing assembly, and the hub assy has to be removed to pull the axle shaft.

 

Never mind, if you pulling the hub and shaft together.

 

ummm errr ok then how did I do it?
I just undid the three bolts holding the hub assemble to the steering knuckle and pulled the hub and axles out together.
Was super simple and I didn't have to mess with retorquing the spindle nut.
Theres always more than one way to skin a cat!

 

LOL darn posted while I was postin'!