the brakes are brand new along with rotors only about 20kms on them.
excellent
for towing 4 wheels down wouldnt i need the vehicle that is being towed be registered/insured? it is a really long drive... where i live if the vehicle being towed weighs 50% of the towing vehicles weight it needs trailer brakes. so how would you be able to get the xploder to brake.?
In that case renting a tow dolly with inertia brakes would do the trick and solve the laws issue. Unless someone else chimes in with a tip, but to my knowledge there isn't a way to get the towed vehicles brakes to work without some fancy work.
I'm not sure if they need to be insured when towing 4 wheels down. I can almost guarantee it'll be a local law if it is.
i would be coming from canada. i know long way to go to huntington beach. also dont some broncos already have tranny coolers? ...Also for tranny cooler is there a recommended vehicle to pull one off from the scrapper?
Bigger the better. My experience has been with manual tranny's, but here it goes:
Since the oil return line on the transmission is low pressure, I believe you can just run a hose with hose clamps to and from the transmission. Yours may indeed already have one, but make sure it isn't actually bypassed by a previous owner or something. Hose adapters are fairly cheap and can be rigged to work if the hose sizes are too different from eachother. Cheaper than a new transmission for sure
so basically my main question is the law regarding this i would be crossing the border in montana and headin south.
I don't think it would be a problem, but be sure to check out if you need some paperwork ready. I'm pretty sure it will be minor, but I'm also fairly confident there will be at least
some.
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Wait, so you're going over the
rockies and
across the U.S. with this? errmmm... I'd strongly consider getting something a little bigger. Stuck in the mountains is not somewhere I'd want to be. Also, with some of those slopes, your tranny is going to be AWFULLY unhappy with you, cooler or no cooler.
Those newer Explorers are fairly heavy and bulky vehicles. Trailer brakes are a
MUST.
I'd look for something with at the least a larger 6 cylinder, preferably a manual transmission, or a good working automatic (which will probably also be fine so long as it has a good cooler).