Over ride a tune

stroker96 · Jun 26, 2013

Hey fella's my king ranch had a dpf delete and a tune when I bought it. I have no idea what tune but I do have my own black maxx. Is it possible to just tune my truck with my black maxx and pretend whatever tune it has now is the stock file?? I don't want to have it flashed to stock if I don't have to if I ever trade or sell it in the future..

LovinPSDs · Jun 26, 2013

my stock file is a spartan 210 tune because my DashDaq got stolen...

No issues with mine i guess... but its a hassle going back to stock from what I hear.

mclean · Jun 26, 2013

LovinPSDs said:
my stock file is a spartan 210 tune because my DashDaq got stolen...

No issues with mine i guess... but its a hassle going back to stock from what I hear.

You have an h&s or a sct? I know that back in the day when my dd was fried I was stuck with the 275 file and when I got my mini Max and tried to install it,it didn't recognize the spartan strategies and kept giving me an error.

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forcefed6.4ford · Jun 26, 2013

Get ahold of h&s for a recovery file. You can pull your strategy code with the mini max I do believe, but I would not attempt to load a new tune with out going back to a stock file first. Some platforms don't play nice together and could cause dtc or the trans acting weird.

LovinPSDs · Jun 27, 2013

I went from dd to SCT... If you can get a recovery file I would but last I was told, it's a huge PITA

forcefed6.4ford · Jun 27, 2013

I got a recovery file in 20min from spartan.

oneturboforme · Jun 27, 2013

this happened to me also but luckely the h&s will write over it.. then you will have the h&s "stock" file

Big Angry Hillbilly · Jun 27, 2013

Have the dealer blank path program it then load your H&S on it.

drunk on diesel · Jul 1, 2013

If you're using an H&S, there's no need to go back to stock. Just load it up. If you select return to stick, it will load a stock file on it

Big Angry Hillbilly · Jul 1, 2013

The h&s will look at the strategy in the PCM before it overwrites it and verify it has that calibration on the card before It flashes the truck. At least it used to. If you look at the card contents you see all the calibrations on the card that it uses to put the truck back to stock.

08twinturbo · Jul 5, 2013

drunk on diesel said:
If you're using an H&S, there's no need to go back to stock. Just load it up. If you select return to stick, it will load a stock file on it

This is correct. I just loaded a h@s over another tuner in a customers truck that is deleted and tuned. He bought it used and had no device with it. It loaded right onto the truck just fine with no issues. Also returned it back to stock with the h@s just to make sure. It will work.