Try car-part.com and search "fender" for a Sequoia of the same Gen as yours. You'll at least see some images of Sequoias in salvage yards near you. If you get super specific on a part it will usually come up blank.
This is helpful too.

ToyoDIY.com

 

Try car-part.com and search "fender" for a Sequoia of the same Gen as yours. You'll at least see some images of Sequoias in salvage yards near you. If you get super specific on a part it will usually come up blank.
This is helpful too.

ToyoDIY.com

awesome man, thanks. this is my first toyota I have that I plan on keeping. I'm not too familiar with everything, I have no problem taking things apart and putting them together, I just dont know the ins and out of them. I'm used to German engineering/diesels. I'll check that site out and give that search a try, that's pretty good idea.

 

I would've snagged that one too for 5 bills!
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I would've snagged that one too for 5 bills!
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I actually have one I can use now that you mention it. I really hope I can recover from the fire. once I fix all the interior bbq, if nothing is wanting to work right I'm gonna part it, as much as I dont wanna.

 

so i have found a part number for my harness, and its looking like it is proprietary to the platinum. looks like i need to find a junked platinum or spend 2k on a fix that might not be a true fix, for a 500 dollar truck.

821410C170

 

Get on car-part.com and look for a Platinum thats in one piece in a salvage yard close enough to drive to.
Also a lot of the parts you need are small and light enough a lot of the yard will ship them at a reasonable cost especially on stuff that they know from eperience has a small market for. Computer time is cheap.
Looks like that harness was on some others like the SR5.

 

Get on car-part.com and look for a Platinum thats in one piece in a salvage yard close enough to drive to.
Also a lot of the parts you need are small and light enough a lot of the yard will ship them at a reasonable cost especially on stuff that they know from eperience has a small market for. Computer time is cheap.

i found two platinums online, waiting for some responses for the harness now. fingers crossed i can get one fairly cheap. im just worried everything else got fried too, battery was hooked up so i could use the door locks.

everything stopped working electrical after the harness melted, not sure if blown fuses or the melted wires fried stuff, or even if one of those modules controls all electrical and its just not being distributed now. like i said first time dealing with really any yota, not sure how they work just yet.

im still working on tearing all the damaged stuff out of the truck and cleaning all that yellow powder out before it ruins the raintray/firewall

 

Well, like you said worse case you can part it out and make a few bucks. The secondary air pumps go south , try $4,400 if replaced by the dealer.

 

that is ridiculous. i have a question for you, is there any type of scan tool for these things that has the capabilities of ista, or vcds does for vw or bmw? when i swap ecus, id like to just do an immo defeat.

 

Sounds like a nightmare, head gaskets and an interior fire! The wiring harness replacement is gonna be crazy.
Would be nice to have the parts Sequoia parked next to yours and just swap parts. Got any pics of the interior?

 

i can get you some in just a few

 

 

Wow! I wouldn’t know where to start!

 

my buddy just texted me and said "that toyota heat be hittin"


rip the dash out, clean melted plastic out, save anything electrical module related, to compare to replace, remove the rest of the well done pieces, and clean all the soot, extinguisher residue away, start looking for wrecked sequoias, thats my process atleast haha.

 

just got the rest of the HVAC stuff out. now to start sourcing the rest of my parts.

 

Do yourself a favor, get a Tundra harness it should be the same, also get a $25 Amazon Techstream and be on your merry way

 

i dont think they are the same from the info i found. but who knows. is that techstream for use with the program or a standalone?

 

is a mix of two things...a USB cable with OBD2 port on one end and a software for a computer...currently I have it with an XP and a Win8.1 64bits...want to install it on a Win10 X64...works fine, got me the V15 but there are some others...once you have it, you could even program keys, remotes. and other things

 

is that something i can defeat immo with or atleast write vin to new ecu?

 

techstream is the Toyota specific software, it will read the VIN from computer and will read every computer on your car...my 2008 Limited has a lot of computers

• rear gate
• drivers seat
• pax sest
• telescopic steering
• cruise (laser or not)
• AC
• lights
• airbags
• ABS
• alarm
• key switch
• pedal
• air pumps

and so on

 

this sounds like exactly what i want, i read some stuff and it said it was a yearly cost in the thousands

 

$25 go to Amazon

 

i did thats crazy it that cheap. i really appreciate it

 

 

thats the one I got...works flawlessly

 

Do any of you fine folks know about anyone that makes a single layer headgasket for these 5.7s?

 

I would say check on Toyota Car & Auto Genuine OEM Parts for Sale | Online Store

 

making some progress. got the other head out, no fires this time. and churched up the damage.

 

slowly but surely I'm recovering from this incident. I'll be much more careful in the future. I picked up some harnesses from a junkyard. parts Toyota said they were compatible, which I guess they are. but several features wouldn't work. so I'm having to comb the harnesses with a friend and a diagram, add plugs and pin wires into it. the majority is done. we are gonna go over them once more here soon. and I can start reinstalling the interior and get back to the engine issues.

 

Impressive but something I would never want to tackle!

 

at this point it's mostly about proving everyone telling me it's not worth fixing wrong. fully invested I'm roughly at 2k. few more minor interior parts. and thenback onto fixing the engine. if I can keep it at 5k or lower. I'm less than half the kbb value. all the removed parts and cleaning I've done you can barely smell anything inside. which blew my mind.

 

cleaning up the block this evening. I figured out what the gunk was in the cooling jacket, the spacer located in there has melted. and I'm worried it may have gotten into places I won't be able to get it out of.

so I'm looking for a used engine. I believe the only thing I need to look for is the 5th digit being a Y. anything else I should look for? anyone have any leads on a used one for less than the scalpers on ebay?

 

alright, new thing, scored a used engine for 600$. its from a 14. i am really not sure, i cant find a straight answer, everything seems to be the same, do i need to change ecu to newer to match, or should i be able to run the ecu i picked up after the fire? since it will need programming anyways, possibly swapping chips from old ecu to this one, still up in the air with that.


i got a few things i wanna look over and change out before i drop this new engine in the truck.

if anyone has ANY info on this type of subject please let me know, im in over my head and i wanna get out of this with a running sequoia for under 5k

 

I would use the ecu that came with the new engine.

 

you must know something i dont, because one did not come with the new engine lol

 

i just got this pic, but this was immediately afterwards, the blower motor is in the puddle down in the floor hahaha

 

WOW good grief, that's a disaster! What incredible damage. Fire is crazy. Mad props to you trying to fix that, jeez.

 

its almost done, waiting on parts to start putting dash back in, cant put the harnesses in until i get the hvac junk in. i got faith in this project, there is the faintest hint of smoke inside, i bet if i lent it to a pothead and had them hot box, you wouldnt smell it all anymore but id probably get harrassed by the boys alot haha