Is it possible to swap the 4wd switch with 4wheel auto, 4A, setting with the 2H 4H 4L switch and gain 4A capability? Seems all components should be there and only need the switch and FORScan update. Basically like adding hill decent to non fx4 4wd trucks.

Has as this been looked into by anyone?

 

After digging deeper it looks like transfer cases are different between the standard and automatic.

 

Yes, completely different transfer case. There was some discussion about doing it, and I think one or two people have, but it's not cheap nor easy. Certainly not just a Forscan change.

 

More to it than the switch. New transfer case for an elocker or not that's 4A ready, trans case module and the switch. Im doing this mod in the fall on my 16 XLT. Not horrendously expensive. Case hit me 800.00 module and switch another 100.00, lift time will be free. But look for this to be 1200ish for sure if you can do the work.

 

do a search and you'll find an entire thread dedicated to this very question

 

It's right here https://www.f150forum.com/f118/anyon...4a-xlt-366903/

I had it bookmarked for when a local chop shop gets the xfer case I need 👍

 

This is a feature that should be able to be optioned on a 302a XLT truck.
ridiculous you have to jump to a lariat for this feature - which is really a safety feature imo.

good luck if you do this mod, would be so awesome but for me not worth time/money as I couldn’t do it myself.
others have.
good luck man.

 

Yeah after reading the links I’m not so sure the value is there for me for the $1k to do it. Especially no more than I’d use it for the climate I live in. I’d rather use $1k on other parts and toys.

Thanks for all the info. Cool to know it can and has been done.

 

I'm in SE Wi and have a lake home in NE Wi, I should have either bought a Lariat or did the mod last fall when I got the truck. 4A for us in the snow, slush and crappolla belt is very nice to have.

 

Yeah, 4A was a big part of why I stepped up to Lariat in my '19 (You win again, Ford). Not that it's hard to switch to 4H, especially in these days with automatic hubs and all that, but it's the situations where you are constantly moving between fully plowed and partially plowed roads, and you can't leave 4H on all the time and you get caught off-guard.

I know there will be, as there always is, people saying they have driven for 400 years and never had a problem and just use 2WD while downing a six pack of budweiser or whatever, but when it comes to driving two ton vehicles around barely attentive drivers in bad weather, I always lean more on the rather have it than not need it side of safety.