I have to be stopped to make it work, but when i hit the button it turns off the traction control. I can start off spinning the tires but if you try to feather the throttle, the traction control kicks back in. As long as the rpm's are going up it will stay off. I know that for a fact since i boiled a set of tires the night before i replaced them. I haven't ever pushed the button in and held it to see if it would stay on. I will have to try that.
I have read a 100+ pages on this mod and I still have a ton of questions:
Did you do the mod by splicing into the ABS switches under the hood or did you tap into the wires running off the 4WD ECU under the glove compartment? I would like to keep my mod inside the truck, so I can just run the wire(s) behind the dash and hook them right into my new factory switch - and I would prefer not to have the ABS light illuminated at the same time.
That being said, what connectors (on the factory switch) did you use for the two wires that disable everything? I believe there should be one tapped wire (from the red wire with a blue tracer) coming from the ECU and another wire needs grounded at a convenient location under the hood. I just don't know which two connectors on the switch I should use? It's the 6 pin connector switch, like in the 08+ Runners and the FJ's, so it appears I have to chose the correct two connection points on the switch to make it work.
And does your switch light up when it's engaged? That was the only reason I shelled out the $70 for a factory switch. And the dealer told me it was a direct plug-n-play for the V6 and the V8 models, which I later found out to be a BS call on their part - once I tore apart the dash only to find a black 115V connector for another mod.
It also appears I may need to mod the switch (from momentary to constant) in order to keep everything "off" the entire time I'm driving. I originally thought that simply depressing the switch for a few seconds provided a break in the current, and everything would stay off until I turned off the truck to reset the factory settings on the ECU?! Did you have a chance to test your theory... holding it in for a longer duration to see if everything stayed off (as opposed to everything coming right back on once you let go of the switch?)
Sorry to bombard you with so many questions, but I want to be 100% certain of every available outcome before I start tapping into wires on the ECU.
Here's the switch I purchase for the mod... I'm guessing it's the same as yours', only a different picture on the actual rocker housing:
