Practical Diesel Tuning: 1. Download the Stock ROM File
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1. Download the Stock ROM File
02.23
| 00:00 | - So we're inside the truck, I have my laptop, I have HP Tuners pulled up, that is their VCM editor. |
| 00:07 | Now there's a variety of hardwares and software you can use to tune a 2017 Ford. |
| 00:11 | I've selected HP Tuners because in my opinion it has the best selection of tables for the tuning application, that is I have access to a number of timing and fuel pressure and all the tables I want to see to make the power level that I'm looking for. |
| 00:24 | In my experience, HP Tuners has a really good scan tool for this platform as well so wide variety of PIDs, all the stuff I'm looking for. |
| 00:33 | It's my favourite software and hardware package for this platform, you may have your own, that's fine. |
| 00:39 | The steps are probably going to be pretty similar. |
| 00:42 | So I have a USB cable plugged in from my laptop to the HPT dongle which is then plugged into the ALDL connector and I have the VCM editor suite up. |
| 00:52 | I'm going to reach in and go key on. |
| 00:55 | So we're key on, then I'm going to toggle over to this flash chip with the green arrow on it and that is read and I'm going to click read. |
| 01:08 | OK so the truck is prompting me or the program is prompting me whether I want to read the ECM or the TCM, if I want to read the whole thing or skip it. |
| 01:15 | I'm going to read a full, read entire on the ECM and the TCM. |
| 01:21 | Program has prompted me to turn the ignition off and wait 3 seconds and turn the ignition back on and click OK. |
| 01:27 | So it's read the ECM and now it's going to read the TCM. |
| 01:30 | Alright so our TCM file is just about done. |
| 01:33 | Turn ignition off, wait 3 seconds, 2, 3, turn ignition back on. |
| 01:39 | Alright and now it's prompting us to save the file and it's picked my last folder for saving. |
| 01:44 | And then I'm going to title these, so these are going to be saved as a pair, the ECM and TCM are going to be saved as a pair and now this file is saved. |
| 01:50 | Now the smart thing to do is to save a duplicate file here. |
| 01:54 | You want to have that separate file saved so that if you accidentally make edits to this file and save over it, it's not your only version. |
| 02:01 | So I'm going to go to file, save as, and that duplicate file just means that I have 2 chances to mess this up. |
| 02:07 | So when we go to edit we're going to of course save as version 1 or mod file but I just want to make sure that if I accidentally save over the stock file that I have that duplicate I can always go back to. |
| 02:16 | That's it for reading the stock file, next we're going to talk about preparing the vehicle for tuning. |
