I found a expedition to buy that was a good price but it is a 4.6 engine.I would like to know if it will pull a 6x12 enclosed trailer good.The trailer weight and what is in it will not be over 3000lbs.I need it just for the summer.

 

Yea it would pull what you need it to, but considering there are so many of these things on the used market for a reasonable price I can't imagine why anyone would settle for a 4.6. Keep looking and I assure you there is a 5.4 out there just waiting for you to find it.

 

I agree. The 4.6l struggles to pull the SUV let alone a trailer. Not to say it couldn't, but my 99 4.6 struggled even to go up not so steep grades. Was constantly pedal to the medal to get anywhere. The 2000 5.4l is much better. Not much faster, just a lot torqier.

 

Wow-

I must call BS.
I have had 4 F-150/Expeditions and let me tell you- the 4.6L performed magnificiently.

1999- 4.6L F-150 * (Traded for the 2000 Expedition)
2000- 4.6L Expedition XLT Sport (Still have)
2001- 4.6L F-150 SuperCrew (Still have)
2003- 5.4L Expedition Eddie Bauer (18 of 60 payments paid)

I have towed trailers weighing thousands of pounds, and loaded my F-150 with a trailer and a good 3,000 lbs in teh bed, and the 4.6L did well.

I have the 5.4L in my new Expy, but aside from drinking more gas, I don't feel any more confident strapping on a 12' U-haul trailer to it, than I did the 2000.

 

Why? Because others, like myself have found a 4.6l to be gutless?

 

Your Crew looks a lot like mine. Or mine looks like yours. However you want to look at it.

Also, I've got a friend that pulls a 66 Shelby Mustang in a 20' enclosed trailer with his Supercrew with a 4.6 and he doesn't have any problems.

 

Not just because of that, but because that stance is BS.

Number 1, Ford wouldn't offer it if it were inadequate; and they certainly wouldn't offer a 6 cyliner in the previous versions of the F-150, if they were gutless and incapable of performing.

Secondly, people would have a hard time proving that the 4.6L is "weak" to me when I was yanking a 5,000+ lb trailer with a full load (2 adults, 2 20 year-old girls and their luggage and two dogs) in my 2000 Expedition down I-20 in 100 degree heat at over 80 MPH for 6 hours straight.

I mean, a Dodge, Chevy, Tundra or Titan owner may consider all Ford engines "weak", but that doesn't make it so, does it?

 

Yes, a lot alike... Right down to the speed grill.
If you don't mind me saying- that is one nice @$$ truck you got there!



Post your gallery thread- I looked for it, but didn't find it...

 

Ok because your 4.6l to you seemed ok power wise, that means that the rest of us that thought it was underpowered are wrong? Or that we are full of BS?

I work for a company that has had no less than 15 at one time ford F-150's, Expeditions and Rangers since 1986. Many of the same year, same engine vehicles had big differences in power-and this is when new. The majority of our 4.6L Exp are have insufficient power in my book. This doesn't mean you can't tow anything. But for me it means the engine really labors on hills and such that our 5.4l Exp or 4.6l F-150 would easily handle. I don't like driving up slopes on the freeway with the 4.6l sounding like its going to grenade at any time.

This is just my expirience.