I shelled out $400 at the Toyota Dealer Parts Departmant for the new “Fuel Pump ECU”.
Will the big Sequoia V8 get its FUEL PRESSURE back to spec?
Place your bets now!
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 $2000 MISTAKE? (Toyota V8: LOW Power-STALL-Runs LEAN-Low Fuel Pressure)')){kind=link}
Come on, people! Pop your hood at least every other month at have a gander!!!!!!!!!!
it should be screwed with plastic screws down there under Titanic
$400 that's outrageous!
You're a good honest decent bloke Ivan, every time you torment over these ethical issues you sprout another couple of grey hairs. But at least everybody learns something and you get a good nights sleep.
One day we are gonna dream about the good old days when we could buy quality Chinese parts.
No point putting a new pump on anything unless you have checked the pressure in rail.
But not many actually mechanics work in dealers or garages these days just fitters that some don't understand what a diagnostic machine can actually do.
How many people on here have actually been shown how a diagnostic machine works
Well Ivan after election today and 100% tarifs are implemented that little part will only be $800
Two observations:
1. The fuel pump could also have been bad, maybe causing the control module to fail. The visible water damage might not have been the cause of the module working only at half power. While you are probably right, I wouldn't throw the previous shop under the bus for making the "wrong" call, it might have been right, but incomplete. Still not what they should have done but it would not mean they threw away 2000 dollars.
2. You could have called the module by substituting the pump with 10A load (2 headlight bulbs) and checking if that changed the current draw. You called it because the amp draw was not what you expected on the pump but were nervous on calling a 400 dollar part on that, while you could have compared with a known load (bulbs) to confirm your suspicion.