Of course, it's a free country. You can risk a failure or not.
When a motor drives a differential, a small pinion drives a big ring. "Mechanical advantage". It overcomes friction, stiction and force vectors. When you backup on a yoke, you have reverse mechanical advantage, whereas a big gear is acting on a small gear connected to a stationary nut needing xxx Ft lbs to break loose if not damaged or rusted. This could break something. You are also possibly jerking the drive train/nut/threaded connection.
(My high school auto shop teacher told us never to jerk a wrench when tightening or loosening. You will snap something because you can't judge/feel the torque you are applying).
Anyway that's my idea.
Dune's is a neat idea if you are in the boonies and have one wrench.
Otherwise it's not worth it in my opinion. The result would be VERY costly.
