Towing a Bristol -

[californiabristol]

I believe that once the rear yoke is disconnected, the rear end of the shaft
can be tilted away from the differential thereby allowing the shaft to be pulled
rearwards which will extract the forward, splined shaft from the transmission.
When I removed the driveshaft on the 411, I had already removed both the
engine and transmission in separate steps. I believe that there is enough room
in the rear cross member to manipulate the shaft around the differential.
Basically, pull the drive shaft backwards, drop the front end, then pull the
drive forward extracting the rear end from the rear cross member.