How to program a new ISX ECM from the old one

[SCOTTL13HDR]

Hello and Happy New year all;
I am new here as of today, I have been in the truck repair industry for 30 years. I have read some posts here related to my question, but i did not get all of the information I was hoping for.

What I have currently is a failed ISX CM2350 ECM, with injector driver codes intermittently. I have purchased a genuine replacement ECM from the dealer and I am looking to transfer the complete files as they are from the old ECM to the new one. The used ECM has an un-mandated program in it that works well in our environment for this fleet. It has decent power, good economy, and very good reliability. I do not want to mess with it. My concern is that I do not have much experience with actual ECM programming, I do not want to end up with a poorly running engine. I have a software- tech support company that my shop has worked with for 10 plus years. I have grown frustrated with waiting for them on weekends, and the recent ten day holiday for what i believe should be a straight forward process if I do it right. Does anyone here have a dependable step by step process of transferring complete files like this. I have unregistered Insi#e and Calte^m software that i have quite a bit of experience with in the diagnostic side.

Any information or insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Rawze]

First and foremost, copy the program from the ECM that is acting up and e-mail it to me for a proper review.

Find out what someone did in there and stop making assumptions.

For all anyone knows, it may have progressively caused the issues that you currently have. Seem that everyone always assumes the program is good until they review it and see that it is nothing but engine killing trash. In all reality, the odds are stacked highly against you for it being harmful programming, as the chances are are more than 95% to 1 that its bad.

For this reason, you should automatically assume as a default, that the programming is bad up front, not the other way around just because 'it seems ok so far'. Bad programming causes what is knows as 'Progressive damage', severely shortening the life of the engine, ecm, turbo, etc. and hardly ever shows up right away, sometimes taking a couple years or more, often depending on how hard the equipment is run.

Making the mistake of assuming that your the one guy who has won the lottery before even looking at the ticket is a very bad place to put yourself, especially as a repair shop. - Never do this.

For all anyone knows, you could very well be dooming the next ecm (or engine, turbo, etc. ) towards its next premature failure.

- NEVER EVER take for granted of 'how good it seems to have run so far, because this is a $40,000+ commercial engine/equipment you are talking about, and someone's business is at stake in the end.

Copying the program out of the old for a proper review...
info: https://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?...5#pid72945

- After copying it out, e-mail it to me for a review of what someone did in there.. If your curious enough, I will even show you for yourself if you like, so that you can make your own decisions .. (to which most people find out for themselves how bad it almost always is at that point). It is not some secret rocket science.

Don't end up like all these folks did...
https://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?...5#pid13255