2016 OVTune Tacoma 3.5L Manual Transmission / Engine ECU Reflash

I actually have a pre made accumulator delete kit in the truck, i just havent installed it yet!! maybe next weekend

 

Right on, now put some miles on that file and let us know if anything changes!

 

Good gawd do it man lol!

 

Yep. The truck will shift better overall. Get your ass under there @TacoJeff19 Lol.

 

I read on here where someone reset their learned values. What are learned values and why would someone want to reset them and is it recommended?

 

Values are abstract concepts that certain kinds of behaviors are good, right, ethical, moral and therefore desirable. In the United States, one value is freedom; another is equality.

These values can come from a variety of sub-cultures or social institutions. A society can have all of the values it wants, but if it doesn’t have a way to enforce those values, then having values means nothing.

So societies have developed forms of social control, which is the process people use to maintain order in group life.

There are two main categories of social control: norms and laws. A norm is a standard of behavior. At some point people in the society agree that these are standards. Some people learn by being taught, but mostly we pick them up just by being exposed to them.

There are a couple of types of norms: folkways and mores. Folkways are norms related to everyday life—eating with silverware, getting up in the morning and going to work or school for example. There are also mores, which are behaviors that are right or wrong…don’t kill people, don’t steal…

Some norms are explicitly taught, others are tacit—we pick them up through observation. We pick up forms of greeting, roles, which side of the sidewalk to walk on…the list could go on and on.

Sometimes, particularly in state-level societies, the mores are codified into laws or binding rules. So, stealing as a bad behavior becomes a crime. Murder—crime.

So, how do societies encourage compliance with norms and laws? There are rewards and punishment. For instance, if you kill someone in our society, if you’re caught, you go to trial and if found guilty, you go to prison, or you can be put to death. We have developed specific jobs and organizations that carry out enforcement of laws…police, court system, prison, military. These are official forms ofsocial control enforcement. Now these forms don’t have to be negative. Some are positive…a good example would be something like a Citizen Hero award.

There is also informal enforcement of norms and laws. As with the official forms of social control enforcement, the unofficial can be both positive and negative—giving your child an allowance for completing chores is an example of positive enforcement; spanking or time outs are examples of negative enforcement. Peer pressure and religious doctrine are other informal methods of enforcement of both norms and laws. Ostracism, or shunning, is yet another.

However, there are times when norm or even law violations don’t result in punishment, but these types of violations are very specifically defined. For instance, it is generally accepted that if you kill someone in self-defense or in a time of war, the punishments

Now, all of these norms and laws can be organized into a set of social institutions. A social institution is a patterned set of behaviors developed to meet perceived needs. This way people aren’t doing whatever they want whenever they want to meet their needs. In US culture, we treasure independence, but that independence must be exercised within the constructed social institutions. That’s not to say that there aren’t people who go outside of these social constraints, they do. That is actually important behavior in an evolutionary sense as it provides variation of behaviors. It is those behaviors where social change is instigated.

Anthropologists put these patterns of behavior into some general categories, for instance, economic systems, religion, expressive culture and political organization. The exact pattern varies from group to group, but the needs that are met is pretty much the same. We’ll be looking at some of these categories later in the quarter.

As we move through the course and read about other cultures, I’d like you to think about the values and norms of your own culture. When you have a reaction, particularly a strong reaction, stop and think about what values, norms and laws are being violated.

 

Referring to the truck "learning" as you drive. If you're running OVTune (you should be) on any tune, I wouldn't worry about the truck's "learned values" since the OVTunage takes care of a lot of the table modification in terms of fuel/air management etc.

Basically, you've got OVTune. Let it do it's thing.

 

Thank you I was very unsure. What about learned values in the society of Toyota Tacoma

 

oh, that’s on page 625

 

Hey Kalede, how's your NYE goin?

 

Sometimes my truck will bog right after I let the clutch out in first gear quickly, then the engine will respond and the truck will get moving. This can be a jerky experience and sometimes the falling on its face is sketchy pulling out into traffic. This doesn't happen often, but sometimes.

Anyone who knows what I'm talking about and has a tune, did it improve this?

 

Yup. Tune helps the <3000 rpm range significantly

 

@tonered is a fellow washingtoner. He’s tuned and has done the accumulator delete

 

Did you get the TSB tune update? I would recommend doing this before/in conjunction with OVTune.

I have a 2018 Sport that came with ECU 04A70. Flashing the software with techstream to version 04A71 (the TSB tune) really improved the stuttering and surging like you describe. When I got my reg key and put it back to 1.05 91 FOB, the truck screams now and I dont have any of the hesitation or feeling like it's running on 3 cylinders. 3rd gear pulls on the on ramps are so strong and smooth now.

 

Yes sir. He has answered quite a few of my questions even though I sometimes get lost on the details .

I did the ADM and after some time to get used to it, I decided its definitely much better!

 

Mine is a 2020, so I'm hoping there isn't any TSB. It generally runs and drives good...just noticing if I really try to get moving quickly in first gear, sometimes it falls on its face when I don't believe it should be.

 

This was one of my main complaints before I got the tune,the tune seems to have resolved the problem.