Great to see Toyota is stepping up in the dashboards, now for the V6 head gaskets!!!!

[Jeff T]

Great to see Toyota has acknowledged the dashboard problem!! I really wish there would be something they could do about those of us that had head gaskets fail.

I remember when the dealer diagnosed mine, I choked a bit and had them repair it. After a week I heard nothing so I called them. I was told the head gasket was on back order. I thought that was interesting and asked why.

I was told the head gasket had been redesigned. Being an engineer, I thought I never redesigned anything for fun, only to fix a problem. $3500 and four weeks later my truck was done.

C'mon Toyota!

 

[NuclearN8]

Jeff,

Feel for you on the head gasket failure.

More than the head gasket part numbers were changed at the same time... this doesn't necessarily mean something was redesigned, more likely a supplier changed for some other non technical reason. It could be because this would have been about the time they decided to use the 1GR-FE in the soon to be released FJ Cruiser as well and the previous supplier couldn't meet demand and their lead time was too long. It could also be they found a lower cost supplier.... lots of non-technical procurement reasons a part number would change....

like you, I am an engineer and so the numbers on this issue make me curious...For that reason I created this thread: http://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen-t4rs/188699-***-v6-head-gasket-action-request-***.html about this issue.

do you care to supply the other info on your failure? if so just reply to the above thread...