Towing with a 2004 Explorer Sport Trac

We had a very similar Explorer///same year. We towed a Fleetwood Sea Pine pop up for 3 years, many miles and many nights of camping. Worked great.

According to the 2004 Ford Towing Guide, page 8 without the factory trailer towing option you are limited to 3,500. With the V8 and the factory trailer towing option, the limit is 5,300.

Thanks, old wizard. I believe those specs are for a bumper hitch but can be equipped with a 2inch receiver attached to the frame and then can tow the 5300 lbs.From the same page;
3,500-lb. towing capacity
with standard rear bumper
•
Can be equipped to tow
trailers up to 5,300 lbs.
I really just want to hear from those who are or have towed with this truck. But thanks for your concern.

Weak transmissions in those trucks. Chris

As long as it is in good maintained shaper it will do fine with the Aliner. I had a 95 Explorer 4dr with the old 4.0L and towed an Award TT that weighed almost 5k lbs! the Explorer 4.0 with factory tow pkg has a 5k lb tow rating. and I think 7klbs with the V-8.

Check your door sticker to see which axle you have.
I have owned quite a few explorers and currently own a 2006 V6 with the 3.55 rear and officially limited to 3500 pounds.
V6 models with the 3.73 were usually rated at approx 5,000.
V8 models varried from 3,500 - 7,xxx but that number vary based on the year as well because around that time is when the V8 engine got the six speed trans I believe for 2006

Me Again wrote:
Weak transmissions in those trucks. Chris

I couldn't disagree more.... And this is coming from a previous 2004 Explorer owner. That Explorer pulled some pretty heavy loads and our 22 bay boat. We sold it with over 150k miles and not a single transmission issue

FishOnOne wrote:

Me Again wrote:
Weak transmissions in those trucks. Chris

I couldn't disagree more.... And this is coming from a previous 2004 Explorer owner. That Explorer pulled some pretty heavy loads and our 22 bay boat. We sold it with over 150k miles and not a single transmission issue

My BIL will tell you a different story. Google that vintage, lots of transmission issues.

Sport Trac

Thanks, all I could afford.
Door sticker says I have 4:10's. Thank you to those who have given me some insight into the trucks towing ability.
The tranny had a complete rebuild by the previous owner just last year so I'm hopeful it will perform well towing the "A". I will probably baby it with sooner tan needed service.

FWIW we pulled a large Starcraft popup with our 2WD 2001 Sport Trac with my Honda sport bike in the back. We took it to Yellowstone, Colorado, and up to Nova Scotia. I can't find my scale tickets, but we were probably way overweight. The truck did fine and was still running well when we sold it. We had no transmission issues and the truck had nearly 100,000 miles at that time.