Burnout on a gen 2 explorer? Possible?

[ebox86]

Is it possible to do a burn out on a 2001 gen 2 4.0 SOHC, or does Ford's ControlTrac prevent it. is there a mod or way around this, or is it not poddible. Thanks

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

the brown wire mod...but its not the best on the t-case, search for the brown wire mod it changes 4wd auto to 2wd and if you wire it right you can get 2-lo as well.

 

[Joe Dirt]

^ What Skan said... ^

Sure it's poddible, just not advidable.

 

[gijoecam]

Comprehensive Brown Wire Mod Thread

First, please note that because of the design of our transfer case, our systems are NOT designed to allow unlimited wheel spin. Allowing excessive wheel spin (e.g. roasting tires for a city block or running Control-Trac/BWM-equipped vehicles on a 2 wheel drive dynomometer) forces the transfer case clutch to slip. Excessive slipping causes a tremendous amount of shearing of the transmission fluid used in our transfer cases. This can result in burning of the clutches as well as the transfer case lubricating oil and is NOT recommended. Our systems are not designed to allow tire-roasting slippage of the transfer case clutch, and doing-so can result in major mechanical damage of the system which can require replacement of costly internal components of the transfer case.

I cannot stress just how bad of an idea it is to allow the rear tire speed to exceed the front tire speed for an extended period.

-Joe

 

[kert0307]

That being said, I haven't heard of anyone who has done the BWM have any problems with thier transfercase... I ran mine for almost an entire summer with the brown wire turned off with no adverse affects. I also have some fun in the winter with it. Just be smart about it, it is bad for most cars in general to do burnouts, a 5k suv is no different.

 

[jah81592]

Posted in need for speed section Link

 

[gijoecam]

That being said, I haven't heard of anyone who has done the BWM have any problems with thier transfercase... I ran mine for almost an entire summer with the brown wire turned off with no adverse affects. I also have some fun in the winter with it. Just be smart about it, it is bad for most cars in general to do burnouts, a 5k suv is no different.

Actually, there was at least one I remember... I can't recall the username, but it was back around '03 or '04, right around the time all the hubbub on the BWM started coming to be. I remember because he was trying to tune his truck on a 2wd dyno, and was complaining that the front wheels were skidding at higher speeds on the dyno, and they had to yank him off because they couldn't pull his front driveshaft for some reason. Shortly after that, he complained because his t-case was locked-up and binding. I just can't recall the username, and a search didn't turn it up for me...

The guts of the case simply aren't designed to sustain significant differences in wheel speeds. In fact, the case was designed with the exact opposite in mind: minimize the differences by using a control system that instantly locks the case upon wheel slippage. If I was going to design a t-case to do that, I'd use a non-contact electromagnetic coupling, not a clutch-packed friction-based setup.

-Joe

 

[rhyno]

That being said, I haven't heard of anyone who has done the BWM have any problems with thier transfercase...

Of course it may been coincidence, but my transfer case ended up having some issues locking itself randomly into 4x4 a few months after i did BWM. I could not seem to get it out of 4x4 so i eventially just took out the front drive shaft. Now it is definelty 2wd, lol.