I have an 01 4 Runner and live in NY and the traction control is awful and actually kind of dangerous. It will kick in and prevent me from being able to move when pulling out onto a road if there is an snow or ice. Anyway, I really need a vehicle I can plow with and my questions are. Does anyone have a 01 4 Runner that they plow with and is the V6 strong enough? and, Can you disable the traction control?

plow and traction control single choice
	traction control
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Well you have an 01, and even though you haven't said so I will go ahead and assume you have a 4wd considering you want to plow. The 3.4 has plenty of power to plow, people plow with the 22re, will it be like an F350 w/ a turbo deisel, no, but it will be fine. Now you say traction control causes issues pulling into traffic, are you in 4wd, center diff locked. Your truck has 2 devices VSC and TRAC. I have also nearly gotten wrecked pulling into traffic in 2wd and hitting a slippery patch, VSC kicks in and shuts down my power, my biggest complaint is it takes too long to turn off, if it cut power and gave it back within a second fine, but it takes too long for the systme to realize traction is back. Now TRAC on the other hand I love, TRAC has no ability to cut throttle, it simply hits a brake to stop a slipping wheel and send power to the other side. So do you hate the VSC or TRAC. You have a center diff allowing full time 4wd, so when in doubt just put it in 4wd and VSC usually won't be needed. If VSC is still messing with you lock the center diff and turn it off altogether. There is a process to over ride the whole system if you really hate it.