I just bought the wife a 2002 Limited 4x4(3.73) V10 w/ 62,000 miles on it. It was a one owner and very well taken care of. I have a couple questions. How do you program the homelink? The X has a factory Transmission Temp Gauge, is that good enough? I will towing a Jeep on a 18' car hauler with a weight around 6,000 lbs. Should I put a deep trans pan on it? On the hubs there is a Auto and manual setting (it is on auto now), can someone explain that one to me?

 

Nice looking Excursion! I'm not sure what the homelink is. The factory trans. gauge doesn't tell you too much. If you were to overheat the trans., it would probably be too late by the time the factory gauge shows hot. I just installed a Tru-Cool Max in mine last week (I will post some pics in my gallery in a bit). They are great coolers and are self regulating, meaning the fluid will not flow through the entire cooler until it is warm enough. This prevents the fluid from staying too cold. You would probably be okay with stock cooler if you are only towing 6K, but for $125, a aux. cooler is good insurance. You would be better off with a cooler than a deep pan IMHO.

If the hubs are in auto, you just flip the switch on the dash and the hubs lock with a vacuum. They don't always hold too good though. If you lock the hubs manually, they will stay locked. A lot of guys replace the hubs with after market Warn hubs, supposed to be much better but they are manual locking. Hope this helps some.

 

Homelink???

 

Homelink is on the visor for garage door opener and/or gate opener.

 

You should put one on if you like the way they look. There isn't any other advantage to them. If you want more trans cooling, and for 6k pounds you won't need it, get a bigger trans cooler. The stock one is already pretty large.

 

Homelink is the built-in garage door opener (3 buttons and little red light) in the drivers side sun visor. It allows you to open up to 3 doors or other RF remote-controlled items from those buttons, and works further away (in mine at least) than the handheld openers.

You'll need your hand-held openers to program the Homelink. I found the instructions under the "driver controls" secn of the manual if your Ex came with the owners manual. Also, have a site, homelink.com I think

But, here's the the basic procedure, it's pretty slick:
1) Press/hold the 2 outside buttons 15 secs or more until the light flashes. This erases any prev stored codes and starts you clean slate.
2) Put your handheld remote close to the visor (1-2 inches) and press and hold the button you want to program AND the button on the remote. If you are at home, the door will go up/down by the way, watch out! Hold both buttons until the Homelink light flashes slow, then fast. Let off the buttons when you see fast flashing.
3) If you want to program the other buttons w/ other remotes, repeat #2. When press the homelink button now, should get a solid red light and no longer need your handheld remote.

There are some openers not compatible w/ this programming and some other options if yours does not work, but both of my Sears openers work well.

Enjoy!

 

I don't have the homelink, bummer. I don't think they work for floating codes either, could be wrong.

 

Information about the Homelink is in the owners manual. If you do not have one, Click here to download one from Ford.

 

Also, the towing guide for your 2002 excursion can be downloaded by clicking Here