Recent content by lakeshorebrewer

My wife is fine. The 4r did a perfect job on deploying the airbags and having the impact minimized. Interesting thing is that all 4 doors opened on the roll. Potentially a designed response? The radiator did stay out of the engine so that is good bit it's toast. Letting it sit for at least a...

Upsidedown... now what? Hello, Sad day yesterday when my wife rolled our 02 SR5 on black ice. It's totaled but I had it brought home. Not sure if I want to get another or move it along but I have a lot of new parts on it. The question I have is about it being upside down for an hour and a...

Cranks but will not start issue Hello, Just following up on a couple of previous posts relating to my 2002 SR5 that would crank but not start. After a ton of research and troubleshooting she is running again. The root cause was that the timing belt tensioner pivot bolt backed out and the...

OK... back again after quite a detour. So the original problem was that my 4r would crank but not start... no spark. After a ton of research, poking and testing I finally pulled the crankshaft sensor which metered fine in both ohms and the wires free of short or ground back to the ECU. The front...

Problem partially found... Thanks again for the ideas. I haven't been able to shake the thought of being able to actually test the cam and crankshaft sensors so spent some time digging into that. I found a video where the mechanic did a cam to crank correlation with a scope. This helped me...

Thank you for the great info. I'll be digging back into the problem this weekend and will post back on results. Cheers

Hmmm... Not sure I have ran across an ecu relay. Where would I find it?

Ignition troubles - No codes Hello all, So we just got our first 4Runner and I cannot believe I have gone this long w/o realizing how great these things are. I have done a ton of research and troubleshooting on a problem that we ran into and am not making progress, hoping for a new thread to...