A pleasure to watch you work. You are a true technician/mechanic. You saved your customer a lot of money. You are also honest, which is more rare these days.
4wd shop had this a week & half and didn’t find this smh stay away from them guys. I always put my 2021 4Runner TRD ORP in 4H & 4L every month or so to use the actuators so they don’t seize up and I don’t get stuck in between 4wd/2wd when I need 4wd. Thanks to TCCN channel explaining the actuators on 5th gen’s and Toyotas in general. Excellent job Petr!! God bless~
You don't need luck. So-called ' luck' comes to those who are prepared. Another great fix - you can call it luck if you want - I call it experience, talent, and professionalism. Very good video :)
Those actuator motors love to seize up. Even on the newest models too. Same with the motor on the ADD front differential. The other mechanic wasnt looking for the ECM, but the 4WD control module. Which lives behind the glove box and is a good place to do electrical tests. All the wires for the system converge there and are easily accessible. The real solution to all this is to swap on the J-Shift tcase and get rid of the push button. Great work!
Petr, Whatever you do, you have to keep this made-in-USA Tacoma on the road for another 20 years. After all, it only has 280,000 miles on the odometer.🥳🥳
Ah, Petr, you know what we like to see :) Never seen inside the actuator. Doesn't seem like the trickiest fix... but you have to have the lift and know how the Toyota xfer case works. Amazing what a little bit of TLC will do to these trucks. I don't think you got lucky. You have seen tons of these trucks. You went to the spot where something was most likely to fail (dirt, grime, crud). You know the wiring harnesses on these trucks are usually pretty good. "Lucky"... psht, don't sell yourself short.
My '07 Tacoma won't go into 4 Lo. It flashes and beeps. I can go into 4Hi and back to 2Wd. Gotta tear into that actuator when it warms up here a bit. Nice insights Peter. Thanks.
Sehr Gut! 24 year old vehicle - no codes from an ODBII scan tool I assume. Love Toyota’s. ‘06Corolla w/350k miles, Intermittent PO741 code on the Corolla - might be what sends it to the junk yard.
I am stoked my gen1 taco has none of this! But the 4wd did stop working at around 200k because of a sticky faulty switch in the transfer case IIRC ... 300$ fix 😢
The Car Nut channel said all that is needed to keep the 4WD lubed is to go through the 4HI to 4LO, then back to 2WD many times,while not moving and don't need to drive it in 4WD to lube it like the owners manual recommend ... Does anyone else do this?
Water & electrical stuff = a bad combination. That last fellow did nothing. He is a thief. It took some deep water to get up inside that unit. Never drive in water more than 4 inches deep.
Still, here we go again with a so-called specialty repair shop that is either incompetent or dishonest or a combination thereof that couldn't or wouldn't perform what looked to be a relatively simple repair. It would be more understandable if the problem really was something seldom, if ever seen. But, here, the issue was corrected fairly easily and inexpensively, though the vehicle owner should definitely have that sensor replaced. Are so many shops really this incompetent and/or outright dishonest?
