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Old Nov 23, 2008 | 11:08 PM
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Is there any way at all to take off the traction control without a tuner? I'm taking my truck to the track soon and the T.C. is robbing me blind off the line. Knowing anyway to turn it off would really help.
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Old Nov 28, 2008 | 09:48 PM
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I'm guessing you dont have a button to turn the TC off? If not I'm guessing there isnt any other way then with a tuner. I could be wrong though.

Does the f150 even have traction control? I thought it just had a limited slip diferential. The two are completly different systems. In short, tc uses the abs and retards the engine when it senses the wheels losing traction.
LSD, improves traction by sending power to the second tire when the drive tire losses traction.

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Old Nov 29, 2008 | 07:33 AM
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What traction control? Are you talking about the limited slip differential?
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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 10:47 PM
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its deffinatly the computer it kills my my power when i start of. my half throttle is just the same as WOT im gonna get a tuner regardless but id like to take it off now instead of waiting. Im sure the 4:10's im getting will beat it out anyway. and the limited slip just stops one tire from spinning on a straight away. it insures that they both have equall power aside from turning.
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Old Feb 25, 2014 | 10:10 PM
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Ok so what do I do to turn off slip dif I just got 4:10's installed and have programmer in performance mode ??
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Old Feb 25, 2014 | 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by saul83
Ok so what do I do to turn off slip dif I just got 4:10's installed and have programmer in performance mode ??
you can't turn off the limited slip. And these trucks do not have traction control just antilock brakes and disc brakes on all 4 wheels and 2 airbags.
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