Gear hunting solution...

Hi TW! I’m new here and How’s everyone doing? I have a 2017 TRD off-road. And I just bought a bit bigger tires 275/70-17 sizes with aluminum wheels size 17x9. I’m expecting more gear hunting now. So, anyone of you here has more experience and knowledge which is the best solution for this? And I’m not a hardcore off-roader just in moderate trails.

 

Make sure your ECU is up to date by the dealer.

If so, https://www.ovtuned.com/

 

OVTune and 4.88 gears

 

OVTUNE
Gears
Drive slower

 

Shift manually with the shifter in S. This way you can choose to stay in the lower gear to prevent hunting. In the city use 3. On the highway use 4-5 depending on traffic. Remember it's an IS350 engine and can be hammered at redline all day.

 

That’s a good idea. Thank you!

 

Are you running gears?

 

I hate to say I read the title and OP and thought he was interested in advice for transporting hunting gear to a hunting/camping site. LOL--the years of partying must be catching up to me.

In my defense, I have a manual, so I hunt my own gears, as it were...

 

@SpeySquatch I’m sorry I’m not sure about running gears. It’s an automatic stock transmission.

 

@OmahaJeff lol!!

 

Thank you all guys for your response! It’s good timing coz I have to get oil change at the dealership on Wednesday. And ask them about this OVtuned updates and etc.

 

The dealer has nothing to do with OVTune. It is a tune you purchase for $700. https://www.ovtuned.com/collections/toyota/products/toyota-tacoma-2grfks-calibration

While that might sound like a lot it is worth it. It definitely improves the drivability and gives a significant amount of HP and TRQ in the lower RPMs for the performance tunes. I currently run the 91 Octane performance tune on my 2017 offroad.

More info can be found here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2016-toyota-tacoma-ovtune-1-05-tune-development-thread.495735/

 

I'm running stock 4.30s in the superior manual transmission

 

@AnotherUser256 oh! Thank you!

 

Cool, I just got my order in for 4.88’s

...Soon to be more superior