Traction Control Issue

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98CobraStarLSC

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I JUST put rear brakes (new pads and rotors) on my 98 Mark VIII yesterday and everything went great on the test drive. However today, i was driving it and the traction control kicked in which is usual if i forget to turn it off. usually though, i let off the gas and turn it off, but today it wouldnt turn the spinning wheel light off! Everytime i hit the gas it would bog down like it was trying to catch traction.. it wouldnt accelerate for crap so i turned the car off and shut the t/c off and it was good to go again! It did this to me 3 times today!

Whats up with this? did i forget something when i did the brakes?
 
My car does the same thing... I just shut the TC off every time I get in the car... I'm planning on just cleaning the ABS sensors really really well... If it fixes it I'll be happy... if not I'll just keep turning it off.
 
Nope... a tune can remove the timing retard so it has full power when it goes on, my tune does that, but the brakes still modulate.
 
its just odd that it acts up right after i did my rear brake pads and rotors! odd indeed....:shifty:
 
You know what... I noticed today that when the t/c is on and wont go off, the brakes arent applying in the rear. Even if i put it in neutral, it is the engine wont rev.. what do you make of that?:confused:
 
Here is what my car does....

If I'm driving through town in a 30 mph zone it will drive fine. When I get to the out skirts of town and the limit changes to 55 mph when I lean into the gas to accelerate the TC comes on and it will stay at 30 mph or slowly decelerate no matter how far I push the pedal down. The TC will not come off until I pull over and bring my speed to zero....
 
very similar. but if you put yours into neutral and rev it up, will it rev freely or is it missing like with it in gear.?

There has to be some wire to cut or something to disable traction control.:confused:
 
I've never tried putting it in nuetral....

Everything that can be done with TC is done in my tune... I still just shut it off every time I get in the car.
 
it wont shut off the t/c till it thinks your not spinning anymore. id say bad/dirty sensor. i had a explorer at work the other day that every time you stop abs would kick on (same idea just backwards) the left front sensor wouldnt read below 5mph, it would just drop to zero
 
My speedo snaps down from around 10mph to the bottom as I roll to a stop. I know I need to clean off my ABS sensors.
 
when you say "clean off" what does that entail? Just spraying the sensor tip or the axle tabs?

mine speedo also snaps up and down to like 7mph..
 
thats about it as for cleaning them, look for lots of metal/rust shavings stuck all over the ends, also check the exciter ring (calm down) for gaps/missing teeth/cracks. basically anything lol
 
Get some electrical contact cleaner... spray off the sensor and gently wipe it down. If there are chunks of grease or dirt in the exciter ring use a brush to clean it off.... My front ones are covered in :q:q:q:q.... haven't checked the rear ones.
 
98CobraStarLSC said:
very similar. but if you put yours into neutral and rev it up, will it rev freely or is it missing like with it in gear.?

There has to be some wire to cut or something to disable traction control.:confused:
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You got it tuned at Logan.

Call them up..
ask them to turn off your traction control and email you the tune file in XTR format, then you can use SCT free "extreme tune" software and push it to your Xcal.

If they cant do XTR files, then have then send you and .ll3 file.

It's really easy.

They should have your dynotune calibration "on file"...hell I have every tune file I ever created still.
 
yeah they do have it on file. But i didnt think you could turn it permanently off... am i wrong?
 
You can turn off all the timing retards in the pcm and of you turn off the torque module as well, you've 98% eliminated it.

it might pulse the rear brakes and turn on the little spinning wheel icon on the dash..
I call it my "you spun the tires indicator".
 
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