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Hi, I have a 2002 Sienna I am attempting the same passenger side axle replacement. Does anyone know the part number or search term I can use to find the mid shaft bearing carrier bracket? I’ve tried all sorts but no joy. Thanks!
Thanks Eric. It was the inner joint that was loose. Right now I only had cable zip ties to clamp the boot as none of the auto parts stores sold CV clamps. The outer joint boot had a rip in it anyways so the axle is getting replaced in the next few days. I packed it with Moly grease and gorilla taped the tear for a very temporary fix. I was pretty sure it wasnt aftermarket, as I carefully measured and compared the new vs the old parts, but who knows.
Toyota has some great automotive engineers. They seem to engineer the passenger side axle to freeze in the engine mount and make it so the entire cowl has to be removed to undo the strut bolts. Great for the dealers, not so much the owners that want to fix their vehicles.
Thanks to everyone for your help. I was down to one car between 3 people. Stay greasy!
The axle has a pressed bearing and the shop I go to has had no luck removing it, but that’s another problem. I can safely say the axle is seated in the transaxle. The inner boot is pretty stretched however.
Thanks Karl. I’ll give it a try tomorrow when I have some light. And yes, they are the Gabriel Quick strut type. No more spring compressors for me. I still think it may be a popped a CV issue. Its like the new control arm isnt long enough, even though I have compared the dimensions of both.
Thanks. Yea, i wasnt thinking about the differential type. Doh! Im not sure of the assembly error though with the CV shaft length. The drivers side assembly was fine. I dont have the tie rod end connected to the knuckle, just the ball joint, and i can only get the bottom bolt through the knuckle and the shock mount, and the axle is as compressed as far as it will go. if the inner joint pops, will the shaft still turn as it is doing? If it is the inner joint is the any way to pop it back without disassembly?
Thanks guys. After checking the fuses, relays and wiring, it turned out to be BOTH the low beam filaments in BOTH my headlamps blew at the same time (or at least on the same 5 mile trip). They were Sylvania SilverStar Ultras (The orangish pack). They were poth put in over a year ago, but I read on the packaging that the life was 194 hours. Dammit. Thats not even a year of driving. I wish there were decent LED replacements.
As both the lights are on the same circuit, its not going to be a fuse. So it could be the bulb itself, a bad or water corroded socket, or bad wiring to the bulb. I would tend to agree with BigDanIL279 in that it may be the bulb. I’m not sure which bulb you have, but I would double check that it is the correct one. Ive heard of situations where what appeared to be the correct bulb purchased was not the correct one for that application. The simplest way of verifying that the cause is a bad bulb is to put the working bulb into the ‘non-working socket’. If it works in there, then it is certainly the bulb, either just a badly manufactured one, or you were sold the incorrect bulb itself. If the good bulb works in the ‘non-working’ socket, take that bulb into the store to make sure you get a correct match.
Good luck dude 🙂
Thanks a lot for your help guys.
It turned out to be the battery. I checked it out with my battery/charging system tester. CCAs were down and the battery was 12.3v. I’m still a bit curious as to why my jumpstarter had no effect when I used it to try a start, but I’m not going to lose sleep over it.
Lesson of the day learnt though: Took my car to Costco for the new battery, locked the doors with the remote as I knew it would not lock once the battery was removed. I unhooked the old battery, took it in for core and came out with the new battery, and then remembered I had changed my ignition switch cylinder last month due to the key jamming in the lock. So the new key would not manually open the car door :S . I Had to call my kid to come pick me up so I could search my house for the old keys (with 1% battery on my phone).