Says a guy whose engineered 0 cars. You think you know how easy it is until you try. Have an army of financial ppl down your throat and a strict schedule. Sick of the blame the engineer take from smart dumb ppl.

That starter location isnt even a big deal lmfao. It take like an hour to change.

you do know that design and engineering are 2 separate departments that never work together? IDK why but it just is. design usually makes the care and then they give it to the engineering team saying "here make it work". Engineering are dealt a shit sandwich and Macgyver that shit to make it work.

Good tips. Thanks. Especially for guys who aren’t super familiar with repeaters

It really is not a hard job. Intake comes off in a few minutes, as does the starter then reassemble. Literally millions of cars are far harder to replace the starter. Oh so many cars you have no way of doing the job from the top,,underneath which can be ok presuming you have a hoist.

So is it better to design to last 1000000 miles or design for ease of part replacements every 100k miles

Thanks very much. I'm going through that rabbit hole now. When I click SUBMIT on the FRS page it takes over 30 seconds to open the next page. The TITLE box requires no input. YOUR video seems much simpler than trying to decipher the FCC web pages.

Could be worse, it could be in the gear box housing

Oh no, you woke up the Toyota defenders

Those era of Toyotas fatal flaw was the frames rusted in half. Dont believe me look it up. Engine bulletproof the frame was literal garbage.

Everey mechanic saying engineers are dumb, does not have a clue how designing something works.

1uz 2uz>

Engineer versus mechanics

I for get what yr but had the same problem with a Lexus 300 V8 5.0 liter I think wildest engine I ever worked on 2 distributors one on each side overhead cams & starter in the valley pan also had the cooling system cooling crossover pipe over the starter almost had to pull the heads to get that pipe off. was doing my sons' H.S. best friend a solid renovating a used car

Toyota is also one of the most woke companies around, they're way more obsessed with DEI than quality now

Nissan Titan starter is in a worse position than that one if I remember correctly

starter in the valley,not that bad of an idea if there was maybe a recess and it could be taken out without taking out the covers.

They are *almost* always designed with servicability in mind. This is a bit of a gimme as the 2uz is a bit of a beast when it comes to long production jdm, and at that displacement, you either put it there, or get stupid with chains. 😊

As someone in the rust belt, I love the starter location. Ill take a starter thats a pita to replace once every quarter million miles than a transmission mounted starter that I have to keep a torch and hammer in my car if it gets too cold, and ill have to replace every two years

No, they are really smart about part location. Because you nor the average mechanic of the backyard variety will want to change the starter, and you might go to the dealership for the installation of a new starter.

I recently bought one to build a grab and go kit. It is surprisingly small which will allow me to minimize the size of the kit, but once you unlock the radio the programming can only be done by hand since its not Chirp compatible, unlike the DB-25. But I couldn't pass it up due to the price...ended up getting it for just under $90, not including any sales tax. I would have preferred the 20W Wouxon radio, but at $200 that was out of the question for my intended use.

Huh, it never accord to me where the starter was located. You learn new everyday.

Like most college educated people 😮

That manifold is off in less than ten minutes. Not a big deal.

A vechile engineer will climb over a evrst sized pile of virgins to fuck a mechanic no questions asked.

I had a 1995 rodeo. Just a warrior. Loved like nothing. Had a starter go out. Soooo 1) its mounted driver side above the sway bar. Dont have a cherry picker to lift the engine because youre a peasant? 2) no problem. The starter is a three piece assembly. Just take the fasteners out and she comes apart. EACH. COMPONET. WAS. A DIFFERENT. FASTENER. and we arent talking just metric heads, nah. Lets put allens in there. Hope you have an articulating ratchet head for those body bolts, bucko. 3) ok, so you mapped out which goes where and repeated on disassembly of your new starter. You've trained for this. Hope you also mastered Tetris to find out how to get those pieces out and how to play the level in reverse to get it back in, you filthy do it yourself fool! I still remember her fondly. But i never understood the term "seeing red" until i had dropped everything laying on the concrete with hands and feet braced on all tires and just growl-shouted until i thought i was about to have an aneurism. Ironically i now work pretty much exclusively with mechanical engineers.

Bought it back so they find out what never to do again.

There is more to it than just blaming the engineers. Maybe the company rushed the production while the engineers were working on a better placement. Maybe putting it in the next 5 convenient spots didn't work because of very specific reasons. I just hate it when people have 1/3 the info and then blame some faceless group of people. All it does it give credence to the next brainless person with little knowledge to do the same. I'm not an engineer, and I don't own a sequoia, but i know enough about critical thinking to know you dont know much.

My beast is a 97 rav4 with 367k miles ALL original parts

350 k and going 2001 sequoia

There's no automobile ever perfect and never will be just like a person never perfect and never will be

All trucks are like that they have different ways and different things that they do that you go why the hell did they do that

Dude. I love Toyota but man when one comes into the shop, my anus clinches in fear

I've replaced two starter so far, such a pain in the Asa

Same stupidity with my Jeep to remove the starter you had to disassemble the driveshaft....easier than it sounds but still what engineer designed this????

You will complain about location and service of some items and say genius about something else. You have to fit a lot of shit in a tight space, make it manufacturable and serviceable. It’s a lot of trade offs. Engine bays aren’t like they were in the 50s they are crammed packed so that we can have all the shit people like to have in cars now

I can pronounce Puyallup ❤

Try working on a Porsche V8 where the starter sits in the same place but under a plastic coolant line and a fuel rail and every other thing you have to touch costs more than a toyota

My 1998 1-rze hilux is at 1,289,000km I had to get the dremel out and carve into the cluster its clocked the odometer because If i ever sell it, its gunna be a honest sale

It call nerds never have common sense bc they not around people enough lol I mean normal people 😂😂😂

My 4.7 has 369,000 ... The starters been changed once with simple hand tools , by me in my driveway .in about 3 hours ...

Better than some cars i have seen a full transmission out job to ge to the starter in the trans,ission bell housing

It's not a flaw. If you replace intake gaskets at suggested interval (not after failure).

Ive said this about computer cases for my whole 40 years of life. Like holy crap

Would 2wd grand Cherokee make it??

Biggest issue with thar motor was fuel mileage. My 06 Tundra got 12-13mpg no matter how you drove it.

Better then the Bentley that's inside the transmission lol

Mate australia we get robbed ask about doing it all right and still under warranty 😢

I was a mechanic for 15 years when I started, I thought all these systems were dumb by the end it actually is the better design due to replacing intake gaskets that fail often and getting to kill 2 birds with one stone

Theres a few vehicles (porsche in particular), that put the starter in the transmission bell housing.