Originally Posted by
NeedCAforS13
Trailer or tow dolly?
And there's a difference between doing something once or twice in a bind and using it as your racecar tow vehicle on a regular basis. 3rd Gen 4Runners have shitty auto transmissions and rear axles to begin with. Subjecting them to big loads is asking for failure. Plus the rear suspension is too mushy for a big trailer load. The truck starts to feel real squirrely on the highway. The brakes totally suck too (with a trailer and a car behind you.)
At the very least you need to run an external trans cooler and get rid of the one that's in the radiator. The one that's in the radiator has a nasty habit of mixing coolant in with the auto trans fluid, which quickly kills the trans.
it was with a trailer. Had to use blocks to keep the rear end from scrapping the ground.
Can't say it was fun. lol
Had to do it a few times. for a total of at least 600 miles. Nothing ever brakes close to home. lol.
But yeah, I wouldn't do it regularly.
I was just busting your balls about it.
People get so hung up on the "you have to have a truck and it has to have this, this, and this to be able to tow anything" Almost as if they forget that towing something is mainly about driver skill. Pay attention to what you're doing and how you're doing it and pretty much anything can tow anything else.