How Well Does Your Expy Tow?

[DARCEXPO]

New to the sight. Just bought my 2004 Expy last month (Love it). Plan on doing alot of towing this summer. Just wanted to know how well your expy does towing. Traded in a 2004 Dodge Durango with the HEMI to get the Expy. Durango would burn alot of oil towing my camper through the mountains. Used to have an 02 F-150 SuperCrew and it towed my camper way better. Wanted to see if you guys had any problems towing with your Expy and how much your towing.

 

[chuck s]

Hit the Search button, there're probably a dozen towing threads.

-- Chuck

 

[MavrickMA]

I towed a 35' travel trailer (approx. 8000 lbs) w/ a 2003 4.6L Expy with no sway control! Sunk the rear-end pretty low, and couldn't get above 50mph, but she did it. Won't do it again though...too nerve racking!

 

[AvroAero]

I know a guy that did that with the same truck and he said he got like 5mpg in the mountains lol, but it did it.

 

[huklebuk]

I tow an 18 foot Kona jet boat on a double axle trailer. Not sure of the weight, prob around 2800-3000 range. Tow to the lake is a 145 miles one way to havasu. Tows like a champ. If your doing alot of towing I would put in the air springs from air lift with the on board air compresser. I put mine in myself, took all day but man does it make a difference. It takes the trailer hop right out. Can't really feel it, but thats partly due to a good trailer and maintenance on it as well. Make sure you do your trailer maint. its amazing how much trailers get neglected. I saw two this past weekend broke down in the middle of the desert.

 

[Joe S.]

I tow a rockcrawler with mine. It has the 5.4 and 3.32:1 gear ratio and it does ok. I think it would benefit more from a 3.55 or 3.73 gear out back but I can't complain as it is. Trailer and crawler weighs around 4k-4500 lbs if I had to guess.

 

[ydopen]

Cut the overdrive off and let her rip.

 

[AW_3_3]

Towed a 5600lb Jeep Wrangler (Big tires, lift, packing to the brim with stuff from the house when moving, very very heavy things) With our 2003 4.6L. With the big tires, it was significnatly taller than the truck on the trailer. It was a 500 mile trip through some mountains. The rear end sank down pretty low. Going uphill was a challenge for it, it would get down to 40 ish, floored, the tach hovering at 4600RPM. Did fine though, set the cruise at 65 most of the way. Towed it with no problems. Got about 8-10 MPG during the trip though. This was with the Michelin LTX M/S tires, they handled it very well.

EDIT> I should mention the expedition was also packed with 4 people, and something stuffed into every nook and cranny. There must have been a good 1000lb extra in the truck, including us.

 

[bubbadabulldawg]

I would put in the air springs from air lift with the on board air compresser.

Do you happen to know what the part # is I went to Summit and they don't show any listing for the expy.

 

[RedRanger91XLT]

Towed a 5600lb Jeep Wrangler (Big tires, lift, packing to the brim with stuff from the house when moving, very very heavy things) With our 2003 4.6L. With the big tires, it was significnatly taller than the truck on the trailer. It was a 500 mile trip through some mountains. The rear end sank down pretty low. Going uphill was a challenge for it, it would get down to 40 ish, floored, the tach hovering at 4600RPM. Did fine though, set the cruise at 65 most of the way. Towed it with no problems. Got about 8-10 MPG during the trip though. This was with the Michelin LTX M/S tires, they handled it very well.

EDIT> I should mention the expedition was also packed with 4 people, and something stuffed into every nook and cranny. There must have been a good 1000lb extra in the truck, including us.

What towing package does it have? Mine has a 5000 lb towing package.

 

[aod92]

I tow my Mustang with my 99 Expedition with no problems. My car weigh's aroun 3100lbs. and I'm gonna say the trailer is around 1200lbs. It has the 5.4 in it, and I replaced the air bags with coil springs. Here is a pic!

 

[Eddiebauerexpy]

I towed my 79 F150 home, on a homemade, all steel, car hauler (about 3500lbs), with the truck, (somewhere around 5000), plus a bed fullof crap in the truck (enough to squat it almost tothe bumpstops), so im guessing somewhere around 10,000lbs. The rear suspension was begging for mercy (coils were MAXED), but i pulled it out of O/D and it really towed it good, it was stable, stopped it good, and had plenty of go power, except up some steep hills, i had ti floored and tachin 4500 to keep 50, but for the most part 55 wasnt a problem, thats with a 5.4L and 3.73s with an E4OD trans.

 

[Woody64]

I have a 97 Expy with the 5.4L. I towed my friends truck on a homemade all steel trailer with two mobile home axles. The trailer weighed 4000lbs and the truck weighed a little over 5000lbs. So it was somewhere from 9000 to 10000lbs on my expy. I put all this weight on my stock bumber and it handled it great! I drove on I-44 for about 100 miles and 65 hwy, which has some very steep hills, for 40 miles. I had no problems at all and I never had to floor mine. When I went up a steep hill I turned off the overdrive and climbed steadily up the hill at appx 3300 rpms. I drove most of the way going 70 mph. I absolutely love my expy, it runs amazing!