{"id":60285,"date":"2020-05-27T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=60285"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:35:54","slug":"pull-heavier-loads-1997-ford-taurus-3-0-v6-89000-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/05\/pull-heavier-loads-1997-ford-taurus-3-0-v6-89000-mi","title":{"rendered":"Pull heavier loads 1997 Ford Taurus 3.0 V6  89,000 mi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1998-ford-taurus.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Taurus\" width=\"548\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1998-ford-taurus.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1998-ford-taurus-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will a transmission cooler and \/ or electric brakes allow me to pull heavier loads. I think the max now is 1500 lbs<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>No. You should not exceed the vehicles manufacturer specifications stated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/free-car-owners-manual.html\">owners manual<\/a>. The transmission cooler will help cool the transmission fluid to prevent overheating the transmission. The electric brakes will help slow not tow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will a transmission cooler and \/ or electric brakes allow me to pull heavier loads. I think the max now is 1500 lbs No. You should not exceed the vehicles manufacturer specifications stated in the owners manual. The transmission cooler will help cool the transmission fluid to prevent overheating the transmission. The electric brakes will&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/05\/pull-heavier-loads-1997-ford-taurus-3-0-v6-89000-mi\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pull heavier loads 1997 Ford Taurus 3.0 V6  89,000 mi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}