Towing with a KJ

[seabass1858]

What is the heaviest thing you towed with a kj and the longest you towed with it? (Campers, Boats, Toy haulers, Work trailers, etc)

 

[03 JEEP KJ BIG BLUE]

double axel u haul trailer fully loaded with house hold stuff. it was not to bad just break early. i also have the towing package with the ****** and oil cooler.

 

[ck2012]

24 foot Old white deck boat with 4 bolt main sbc 350
Got it free and gave it to my cousin so he could make a toy hauler out of the trailer.
When i stripped the engine out and took it the the junk yard it weighted in at about 5.5k.
I pull a 19 foot skeeter fish/ski boat just about every weekend and i think dry its at 3000lbs or so not loaded with fishing gear.

 

[Ry' N Jen]

I towed a lawn tractor once!
It was on a heavy dual axle U Haul trailer.
Pulled it no problem!

Hell...
I pulled train on a 23 year old wench with five friends...
I'm sure that...

Oh never mind!

 

[J-Thompson]

Pulled a YJ on 35's wheels down
Loaded for 3 days of wheelin
Tried with TJ but it got a little interesting
over 50 or so

 

[HoosierJeeper]

double axel u haul trailer fully loaded with house hold stuff. it was not to bad just break early. i also have the towing package with the ****** and oil cooler.

x2. I pulled it from FL to WI.

 

[seabass1858]

So I guess I will be good with 32s and 4.10 and a 45rfe with factory tow package pulling a 4k camper from ga to va to my next duty station, I did it with a 95xj but i went from pa to ga last time but traded for kj since then. cant seem to get away from the j's.

 

[Luke]

double axel u haul trailer fully loaded with house hold stuff. it was not to bad just break early. i also have the towing package with the ****** and oil cooler.

Ditto! Pulled it like a champ .. but ya .. brake early!

 

[Wagonmaster]

The factory information is vague. What exactly is in the factory tow package? Does it have the same radiator?

 

[KJDevildog]

Towed a 1977 BMW on a double axle car hauling trailer from Oregon to SoCal total of about 950 miles. The load weighed about 4800lbs so it almost maxed out the tow capacity of my poor libby.

Did very well and I was pleasantly surprised, had trailer brakes so braking wasn't that terrible. I got about 12-13mpg though average, that was an expensive drive!

 

[KJDevildog]

The factory information is vague. What exactly is in the factory tow package? Does it have the same radiator?

Factory tow package is a different rear axle ratio(3.73) and a transmission cooler on the radiator, as well as a hitch receiver.

 

[Porkchop]

Err

 

[Porkchop]

A wire harness electrical fan and a machanical fan

 

[jasond37]

I pull our pop-up camper, measures 6x10 or so but not sure of the weight. The camper has 8x5.70 wheels so it can't be terribly heavy. I also pull a 14' aluminum boat regularly during the summer and have a 6x10 utility trailer used to haul my fish house and snowmobile in the winter. I installed the hitch and mopar wire harness myself in about an hour, really not that hard if you have the right tools.

 

[jasond37]

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Here is our camper we pull.

 

[TwoBobsKJ]

Factory tow package is a different rear axle ratio(3.73) and a transmission cooler on the radiator, as well as a hitch receiver.

Nope. The factory tow package only adds the wire harness and hitch along with mechanical fan and special fan shroud to enhance cooling of the ****** fluid.

The rear axle ratio on 6-cylinder Libby's is 3.73 - the 4-cylinder models got a different axle ratio (4.10)

You can tow without the tow package if you take care to keep the ****** temps down with a supplemental cooler and/or fan. Libby's after 2002 have the external cooler while the '02s had the in-rad cooler. If you buy a replacement radiator it will have the trans cooler tank built in; you can put that cooler in-line with the external cooler with some relatively simple plumbing and add trans cooler capacity. Ry & Jen just did that on theirs and I'm going to do that on mine this spring.

Bob

 

[sumpter1]

Club maintenance trailer loaded with an atv, generator, signs, floor jack, gas auger, chain saw and lots of hand tools. I have towed this several hundred miles and get about 13 mpg.

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Also have used to pull a loaded flatbed on several trips. I have loaded the trailer with 3 atv's a couple of times.

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