Try this company. https://www.rcfuelinjection.com/
2000 4Runner needing injectors for 3rd time
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Thanks for the reply and suggestion, but i just ordered a whole new set and the necessary gaskets this morning.
Those brown ones were the replacements the seller had installed. I tried looking up the name, it was something like "Aaraan". It's not good when a lot of sketchy Temu type ads and sites pop up for the brand name.
Bite the pillow indeed. $1,146.00 after tax and shipping for everything I need. Hopefully WMP gives me something of refund, or a new set to sell.
The recall was for Tacomas. The 4Runner frame was made in Japan.
They still rust. Ours (2001 with 151,000) was rusted on the inside of the frame next to the fuel tank. Costly repair. Many of the used trucks I looked at had frame repairs.
We use OEM for a lot of stuff (like lower ball joints) but haven’t had to replace the injectors yet.
Because they saw a market for owners of neglected 4Runners.
I owned a 3rd gen 4Runner for 22+ years. It was operated every winter on Salt encrusted roads, and spent time every year on the Bonneville Salt Flats. When I sold it, it was rust free. How? I washed the Salt off (including the undercarriage) regularly.
The day I sold it doing an in-and-out through a dealership.
I recall a neighbor who bought a Mercury Mountaineer (Ford Explorer) at the same time I bought my 4Runner. After 10 years, his Mountaineer was a rusty hulk, it's frame and body were ready for the scrap yard. In fact it was scraped. It had also had many major mechanical repairs. My 4Runner in over double the years of service, had only needed a $20.00 hydraulic hose, and an hour of my time to replace.
A 4Runner is very reliable mechanically, but if Salt isn't cleaned off while operating in a highly corrosive environment, eventually that neglect can lead to frame issues, as it can for every other brand. But those other brands aren't typically as reliable, so they get scraped sooner. I saw it regularly when I worked in a repair shop that worked on all brands.
I bought mine from a guy in Wisconsin, who inherited it from his mother who was a realtor in Colorado. I found a business card from Durango the first time I detailed it.
I'm from Michigan where they use plenty of salt all winter, and winter is long. Every Fall I would coat the underside of our vehicles with Fluid Film. A couple of times a month I would spray our cars off on warm days, and then spray WD40 in the wheel-wells and kick panels. This process worked pretty well and kept new rust to a minimum.
Being in Virginia now, the winters aren't nearly as bad and neither is the salt usage. I have some mild surface rust that I want to touch up over the summer. Hopefully, I won't be replacing fuel injectors this summer...
Interesting, I wonder if you got the scary airbox warning this one did? Warning! YoUR cAr haS ComPOoTerS!!
Nope! Didn't have that, or the dreaded K&N sticker. Yours looks solid still, and congrats on the half million mileage; impressive! The Gen 3 4Runner is the first vehicle that I ever considered buying used at 200k miles. It's also the vehicle that got me i to liking Toyotas almost twenty years ago. High mileage is different for these than most other vehicles.
Im another for not using much reman anymore. I have had good luck with Advance auto starters, but their calipers rebuild units stick. I had one blow out the seal and leak everywhere while pushing the piston back when I suspected it was binding. They look beautiful. I suspect poor quality rubber parts swelling up. I get that they don't make a ton of money on rebuilding things. But why bother if it's not done right? It must be that 1/2 of the people that buy these parts just give up and eat the decision. Like with these calipers that were in 10 months. I just wanted to buy new at that point because the chances are I will be doing them again in... Follow me here. Take a guess. You guess correctly! 10 months. Is that cost effective for me a DYI guy? Or worse, You the guy trying to feed their children. Nope. Someone needs to say no. Say no to reman electric injectors. Even if they can get them apart, how good are the new seals and rebuild parts? Mechanical ones sure because as said they can get them apart. Area diesel does a great job in this realm.
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I've never heard of needing injectors replaced on a gas engine.
I'm wondering about the wiring to the injectors, especially the last few inches as you get close to the connector that plugs into the injector.
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I mean unless it's a boat that's sat for a year, but not a car that gets driven all the time
Why do injectors fail? Electrical issues and mechanical issues.
Electrical issues. Opens and shorts. Why. Over current. undercurrent. Mosture. Heat. Have any of these?
Mechanical issues. Sticking. Stuck, Clogged, leaking
Poor fuel quality, Sitting lengths of time. Poor maintenance. Fuel line deteriation. Moisture. Internal seals
Does your vehicle have a replaceable fuel filter change it a regular intervals. Run fuel system cleaner once in a while in your fuel. Techron is a good one. You dont need to run premium fuel unless required my the MFG. Get your fuel from a reputable busy station. I only replaced fuel injectors in 3 in all my DIY years. 2 were GM "spider" types on the GM 4.3 Vortec as the seals blew out and the other was a subaru and I was guessing. It ran the same. I maintain 4 vehicles for myself and family. One time a injector connector was corroded and 2 mechanics replaced everything else but the connector! I did it myself with a junk yard one.
Yes things wear out eventually.
Electrical issues. Opens and shorts. Why. Over current. undercurrent. Mosture. Heat. Have any of these?
Mechanical issues. Sticking. Stuck, Clogged, leaking
Poor fuel quality, Sitting lengths of time. Poor maintenance. Fuel line deteriation. Moisture. Internal seals
Does your vehicle have a replaceable fuel filter change it a regular intervals. Run fuel system cleaner once in a while in your fuel. Techron is a good one. You dont need to run premium fuel unless required my the MFG. Get your fuel from a reputable busy station. I only replaced fuel injectors in 3 in all my DIY years. 2 were GM "spider" types on the GM 4.3 Vortec as the seals blew out and the other was a subaru and I was guessing. It ran the same. I maintain 4 vehicles for myself and family. One time a injector connector was corroded and 2 mechanics replaced everything else but the connector! I did it myself with a junk yard one.
Yes things wear out eventually.
I'm getting ready to send mone to the fuel injector rebuild company in Georgia, then be fone with it.
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I've heard of it...such as this thread, but I have never replaced injectors...and I've got 382,000 miles on my BMW 540, and Tundra with 390,000 miles...both with the factory original fuel injectors... I've owned since new.
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I'll give an update. So far its been a few months, and I have almost 3400 miles on the Toyota injectors and everything is still fine. I checked the fuel trims about once a week and everything is right where it should be. I'm still getting about 18.9 to 19.2 MPG, or about 280-300 miles per tank of gas before needing a fill up. In that same amount of miles or less, I had at least one Motor West Performance injector fail. I still say they their customer service is excellent and that they are a good option for people. They just didn't workout for me.
Did you call them and ask them if the truly rebuild them, or do they refurbish them? My research found that an injector is sealed, and that the internals cannot be replaced. They can only be cleaned, the o-rings and screens replaced, followed by a flow test. I'd be curious if they can actually rebuild them and prove it. I'm not saying they can't since research online can only result in so much information, but I would be curious of what they say.
There is nothing to replace beyond the o- ring. Maybe the spring? It’s just a needle valve, an electrical coil and a spring. I assume they get gummed up and an ultrasonic cleaning fixes that?
Having said that I am also in the camp that they should rarely fail. My 415,000 mile xterra is on original injectors. My Frontier has 225K - all original injectors.
You might be right and maybe I just had bad luck. In my case, new injectors fixed my issue immediately, every time. If it were bad wiring or a connector, I think it's logical to assume that the problem would persist even with another installed set of injectors. So far the brand new Toyota injectors are lasting the longest and the fuel trim numbers are still in a good range. I hope that continues.
Motor West was supposed to call me after checking the last set of injectors I returned to them. I would have been curious to hear what they found after test them, and it could help with the diagnosis.
If I go a year without issues, I'll feel good.
