Towing with BII

[VaGent]

I have a 1990 BII 4X4 with a strong running 2.9 V6 & A4LD tranny. The tranny has been rebuilt & is out of a 1994 Explorer. I am running heavy duty shocks & Explorer springs front & rear with 215/75R/15 tires. The door sticker says the GVWR is 4650 pounds. I also have the D4 rear end which is geared at 3.73 with Trac Lok. I want to pull a bass boat that weighs somwhere around 1400 lbs. The boat trailer is tandem axle. Can I pull this without having to worry about tearing up the transmission? I will not be pulling it up any hills anywhere because were I live it is all flat land. The reason I am asking is because there are no scales around here to find out what the empty weight of my BII is now.

 

[pimtool]

I wouldnt use overdrive.

 

[fordwheelinman]

Did you add an external auxiliary cooler to your transmission cooler lines when it was rebuilt and reinstalled? Did you use any kind of shift kit in it intended to clean up the shift slop? Did you purchase any type or heavier duty rebuild kit, or better quality torque convertor?

 

[Dangeranger3]

[panic voice] Don't do it!! Don't do it!![/panic voice]



If you have a quality trans cooler and your brakes are in good working order I don't see a problem with it.

 

[Shran]

I pull my 17' boat around with my Ranger (same engine, trans, and gears) and it does very well. I never tow it in OD though, and I think my boat is probably lighter...and I have a single axle trailer too.

 

[truckman]

Shit man go for it as long as you have good brakes and u don't run OD you should be fine I towed an almost 1 ton dump trailer loaded down w/ a ton or so of scrap or more w/ my 2.8 short box almost weekend. Never had any problems slow going at a first and stopping was tricky some times but i also and a manual