Towing with a Ford Explorer
Hey guys, I was pointed over here by another forum because I'm getting a bit of conflicting info. I have a 2015 Ford Explorer Limited with a V6 3.5L engine. I do NOT have the Ford Towing Packag...
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It would be a whole lot cheaper just to install a transmission cooler. They can he purchased and installed for a few hundred or less.
My Tahoe didn’t come with the factory HD towing package. I added a transmission cooler that is about 2x the size of a factory job.
Trans temps do not get over 189 and typically stay at 176° Towing a 7,000 lb loaded TT. My engine temps stay at 220° same as not towing.
The chassis are the same Despite what coolers are installed, maybe different shocks—-cheap. Maybe different cooling packages but radiators and coolers are cheap too if you need to upgrade them.
Anyway, you don’t have to spend an extra $20k just to tow a trailer. It doesn’t take that much HP to pull a TT... aerodynamics play a much bigger role IMHO...a 20 ft long full profile trailer has to punch the same hole In the air as a 30 ft full profile trailer so the aerodynamic load is the same between the two.
Setting up the WD hitch properly is important.
Thanks and JMHO
Jeremiah
My Tahoe didn’t come with the factory HD towing package. I added a transmission cooler that is about 2x the size of a factory job.
Trans temps do not get over 189 and typically stay at 176° Towing a 7,000 lb loaded TT. My engine temps stay at 220° same as not towing.
The chassis are the same Despite what coolers are installed, maybe different shocks—-cheap. Maybe different cooling packages but radiators and coolers are cheap too if you need to upgrade them.
Anyway, you don’t have to spend an extra $20k just to tow a trailer. It doesn’t take that much HP to pull a TT... aerodynamics play a much bigger role IMHO...a 20 ft long full profile trailer has to punch the same hole In the air as a 30 ft full profile trailer so the aerodynamic load is the same between the two.
Setting up the WD hitch properly is important.
Thanks and JMHO
Jeremiah
