Pewterbird
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- CA
I'm shopping for an Xj. I read they can tow either 2000lb or 5000lb. 5000lb with the tow package. How do I know if the XJ has the tow package. Can you buy it aftermarket?
ChiXJeff said:There's more to the tow package than just the hitch receiver.
Automatic transmissions get a cooler, as well has heavier lube in the diffs.
If you've got a stick shift, you're stuck at 2,000 lbs. per D/C.
Given what you're towing, I'd suggest that you make sure the trailer has brakes. XJs are known to have weak brakes to begin with.
All automatics have a line from the transmission to the radiator heat exchanger. The tow package would have had an external oil cooler as well, plumbed into these lines. It would have had a full size receiver hitch too. I doubt yours is a tow package model unless the previous owner modified it downward for some reason.cjsxj87 said:I have an 87 with a D44 rear and it looked like lines going from the transmissoin to the radiator. But I think the last owner put the hitch and wiring in(its not a 2 inch hitch and the wiring is inside the jeep). Do you think I have a tow pakage
XJ's with the tow pkg had a different set of springs than the standard XJ. They were stronger and built for towing. They were a middle range between the standard duty and the Up Country heavy duty. 97-01. I have seen XJs with a hitch added and no improvment on the springs and as a result the rear end sags alot faster.jefb said:Rooky here.
I have looked and looked for "what is the tow package?"
As near as I can find the tow package was;
1. A hitch
2. Auto Trans w/ cooler
3. Beefed up electrics.
(If you have A/C you get this.)
4. Trailer plugin.
5. Diff oil w/ additives.
What I have not seen anybody address is the leaf springs. Are they different, better stronger,...?
cjsxj87 said:The previous owner said he did not touch the rear end so it came from the factory with a D44. Do you think jeep messed up then by not putting a D35 in?
An XJ has no business pulling that amount of weight, even if the hitch can handle it.Perdido420 said:This will let you tow up to 10000 lbs WITH THE WEIGHT DIS HITCH SET UP!
x2. My F-250 has a manual transmission and factory towing package. Part of that towing package was 3.55 diff gears instead of 3.07. If you had, say, 3.73s or 4.10s with stock-size tires, I'd bet you could tow as much as an auto XJ safely.badron said:The real problem is short clutch life. Do to combination of the stock 3.07 difs and the (about) 4 to 1 of the AX15 make for a poor towing.