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was the job done at dealership service? were you happy w/ it? do they need to pull the whole engine out - seemed like they could do it in place. for such a small part to fail on so many 4th gens, costing so much labor, i am upset. Do other car makers or other lines in Toyota have similar...

No, I sold the ride to Toyota. I loved the ride.

the 2005 4th gen came with Panasonic battery 105D31L-MF that served me well. I am curious what type it is 1) conventional and low maintenance , these are lead acid conventional / low maintenance batteries ... 2) maintenance free / AGM batteries: these are calcium / lead batteries ... So...

why only #6 cylinder head gasket leak it sounds most get the head gasket leak in the #6 cylinder. Is that a design flaw on the head gasket - i mean, why does it always leak into the #6 cylinder, not the other ones? thanks

what else to replace while doing a HG job left the 2005 v6 1gr-fe 160k miles at Toyota Dealership overnight they called to report seeing coolant in cylinder #6 1. can you really "see" coolant from the spark plug hole, with naked eyes? Or is it typical that inspection camera etc imaging...

The damn code P0306 came back after new ignition coil and all new plugs unfortunately, check engine light came back on today along with VSC TRAC ... scanned it, P0306 so i am guessing it wasn't exactly a problem in the #6 cylinder coil because what's there is a new one. I started a new...

2005 V6 4WD SR5 160k miles rough start, shaking vibration for about a minute. drives ok but felt lose of HP. check engine light (CEL aka MIL) is on, along with VSC, TRAC ... I've a cheapo OBDii reader. showing 2 codes P0306, and P0306 pending. Cylinder 6 misfire. I'd taken it to Toyota...

i manually threaded then gave it another turn when i installed it. could it start to cross thread on the way out? unlikely. hopefully just being tight from being there 67k miles or < 4 years. giving it another shot this weekend.

i know where you're going. 160k v6 '05. hopefully not the HG. http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen-t4rs/158408-cel-loose-gas-cap-vsc-off.html

replaced coil on #6 and 5 of 6 plugs with ngk Iridium IX (can't get #1 plug out, it loosened about a turn and became really tight that I got scared and gave up, any tricks? ). new car battery. so far so good knocking on wood... thx

2005 V6 4WD 160k miles

gave up on that #1 plug for now i needed the car to drive kid to school today so i stayed up till like 3am to put it back together. plug #1, the one that's stuck, might have loosen 1 turn ish but it got really tight. i decided to leave it alone after i fastened it back a 1/4 ish which was...

my #1 (passenger side front, closest to oil dip stick) spark plug seems to not want to come all the way out. i was able to loosen it a bit with a 3/8 ratchet but it seemed tO get even tighter after backing OUT a bit, really weird. i didn't want to brute force it so i left it alone. it was...

P0306 dtc Autozone found 1 code : P0306 Cylinder 6 misfire So now what - have a compression test done to confirm if it is a blown head gasket ? My spark plugs are quite a bit overdue based on the 30k schedule. Should I try replacing that to see if the problem corrects? I've Denso on, not...

the 2005 V6 4WD has never ever needed jump start. on service history, engine oil was changed every 5k to 7500 miles using mostly M1. spark plugs were replaced in 3/2010, at around 90k miles on odo using Denso from Toyota dealership. I am attaching a picture of those original plugs that had...