Toyota electromagnetic drive coupling bearing replacement | *Bonus* wiring repair 

Im not sure if this is any help to Venza owners since its specific to the Rav4 magnetic coupler The Rav4 magnetic coupler for m.y. 2006-2012 is 41303-42021 and updated with 41303-42025. The magnetic coupler is shared across a few platforms. Look up technical bulletin T-SB-0080-13 and it will give descriptions and part numbers for the Toyota parts bearings and seals and the official inspection and repair procedure for the magnetic coupler.

09' Matrix, same set up. Saving this video for future reference. Cheers from Chile!

Thank you very much. You avoided wasting our time showing us the struggles. You spoke about the consideration of using bearing removal tools including the puller. For pulling wheel bearings there are some interesting manual tools available to extract drive bearings but I would also say that once you get this unit out of the vehicle and get it stripped down enough that you can bring it to a shop and have them do the pulling and reinstall the bearings and then give it back to you to put in your vehicle might equal a considerable savings because your vehicles not up on the lift you drop it off at for them to put on a bench and if there's no rush on it they can give you a better price to use the press they have there to do the job plus you get the certification of a seasoned mechanic actually doing the bearing install and saving you the expense of the replacement unit in its entirety but it's still allows you to have a mechanic with a shop and a press with experience and press bearings to actually do the exchange. if you do all the removal and all the reinstall and you just bring the bearing set and the unit to the shop I think you will get a great price considering they can do press on bearings in no time at all so they don't have to charge you a lot of money for that and they realize that you're doing this because you really need the savings if you make a few calls you can probably do very well. 🙏

It's very helpful. Thank you for taking your time to make the video. 🙏

HELPED INCREDIBLY!!! I have an 09 Matrix AWD that has the exact same "VISCOUS COUPLER"!!!

Thanks very informative...this is all good info for "muss'n with" the Toyota Matrix's and Pontiac Vibes w this same sort of Electromagnetic coupler..basically all the same approach...NEW UNITS are RIDICUOUSLY EXPENSIVE! thank s again keep'em coming

Great Video ,There is a guy on e bay that sells a kit for these ,I thought it was the outer large one ,but it was the inner smaller one that was bad ,

For my 2013 Venza, I bought the full bearing kit for a Venza off of ebay, but the 95x120x17 in the kit didn't have the o-ring grove and would spin in the coupling housing. I was able to find the 95DSF01 that had the o-ring grove and it fits perfect. I transferred the o-ring from the old bearing as it was still in good shape. The bearing with the o-ring grove did not come with the cover that goes on the outside so I used the old one. Hopefully it eliminates the noise from the rear of our Venza.

I did this repair about a year ago, I could not find a way to get that bearing with the grove in it as I believe Toyota have a pact with NSK not to sell the proprietary bearing, or Toyota does the machining in-house for that bearing, either way, to buy that coupling is about a couple of grand from Toyota, I was able to reuse the old bearings, as luck would have it.

Does this thing "lock" the drive shafts? Or just clutch it with clutches and capable of slipping

Would have like to had seen the removal and reinstall of the unit.

I would suggest if your bearing does not have the groove for the oring just use a sealant when installing it.

Hello, I recently installed a new coupler in my 2011 venza, i found the unit online for a decent price compared to the dealership. the installlation went fine, the part looks new and put it in place and my loud noise went away. As soon as I finished and went to go for a test drive i noticed my AWD light is now on, with a code reading C1298. I checked my connections and installation again and everything looks fine, but my awd is not engaging since the light is on. I reached out to the vendor to see if i can get a replacement but no response. Is there something I might be able to do on my end to fix it? Did I miss a step ? Thanks

Thanks for sharing this. I broke the 2 pin male connector on the Venza electromagnetic coupler, do you know if this part can be found or the SKU of it ?

This video is very informative thank you. I have a 2010 toyota venza, the similar sound you described is driving me crazy on my car rite now, I take it to toyota but they want me to change the whole coupling say they don't change bearing. I ordered the bearing I want to di it myself. How do I take of the part of the drive shaft that's connected to the rear differential without removing the whole drive shaft. Thanks in advance for your response

Thank for sharing

The bearing i have is 13.5 mm and i can not find it

I have a Rav4 2008 and I noticed that the internal body of the coupling had a slight lose movement, like it was not strongly held by the housing, is it normal?

Why skip over showing how to put bearing in housing and putting the housing onto coupler?

Do both bearings using fail or just one?

How much was the bearing price

I ordered the bearing but it doesn't have the o ring do you im replacing mine not cause if noise but it has a leak its coming from behind the dust deflector I'm pretty sure that o ring on the bearing is the problem I just don't know why the nsk bearing didn't come with the o ring does anyone know where I can get that o ring gasket

i have 2009 Toyota RAV4 i change the big bearing on the coupling and every thing fine . after 2 weeks i start having bumping noises from stop to start driving not always one time its hapind and 5 times non . do you know what going on please

Does anyone know the Toyota part number for the smaller (rear) bearing? I know for sure that it's NOT 90363-65004. I can't find the correct number anywhere. By the way, the Toyota part # for the large front bearing is 90363-95007, and the dust deflector is 41252-44010.

I am in Canada and can't find these bearings anywhere, is there any way you can get them and ship them to me ---PLEASE!!!

I just let the dealer do it…..quite the rip off but no fuss no muss…..