Toyota help

[john112deere]

Buddy called me Saturday afternoon; blew a brake line in his '01 Tundra on his way home from hiking. I drove down to get him; by the time I got there he'd decided to have it towed to a nearby shop (Ben may be interested to know that it, too, was NAPA certified). Took him back down there today to get the truck...

He came by later this evening...truck sounds like it's got a wicked exhaust leak, and the brakes don't feel right. Well...the brakes, I assume, just aren't bled right- that's what they feel like, anyway.

The exhaust, apparently, came off the truck in the process of the brake work, because the donut and both bolts on that flange are missing now.

He's going to call the shop that did the work...anybody know enough about first-gen Tundras to know if removing the exhaust is necessary for replacing the brake lines? Probably we're just going to end up fixing it ourselves because the shop is over an hour ride away (and I, for one, don't trust them to do anything right, at this point).


Also- probably unrelated...but sometimes when the truck is cold and he shifts from Park to R or D, it stalls out. We're thinking the IAC needs cleaning...right? Maybe?

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

I dont know on newer stuff but the only thing I can think of that would make the exhaust system have to come off would be the end of the line is on the top side of the muffler or cat.

 

[john112deere]

Exhaust runs down the right hand side of the truck, and (from my quick look in the dark) the brake line is inside the left side frame rail.

Tyler said somethin' about dropping the gas tank, but I don't know whether that was just him guessing at why the exhaust came down or what they told him...

*I also don't know if it has 4-channel ABS, and if so, how the lines would be routed. Mine's got an ABS box under the cab floor for the rear brakes, but if the Toyota can pulse the rear brakes individually it may have something more complicated. It was dark and wet so I didn't want to crawl all the way under tonight...

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Yeah I really dont know.

 

[john112deere]

Well...headed over there today; he and I bled out the rear brakes and they feel better. Didn't bleed out the rear ABS box (which does have it's own bleeder screw) or the front brakes because he's got decent pedal now, and he's going to NEED to replace the rest of the steel lines ASAP. The ones on the rear axle are downright scary.

As to the exhaust- only thing I can think of is that they were out to screw him out of a bunch of money. They did not remove the exhaust...but both bolts were missing from the flange on the back of the cat. We put a new donut in and a couple new bolts...but the whole back half of the exhaust had shifted rearward a bit and it didn't want to seal. No come-along (Tony's suggestion) available...but with a C-clamp and three guys we managed to move it up enough to mostly seal. Not perfect, but it'll do until he gets home and up on a lift in his shop.

 

[89frankenford]

well good to hear you got it somewhat fixed for the time being

 

[john112deere]

Yeah...we got it set good enough for him to use the next two weeks, and then drive back to Vermont.

He's got access to a way better shop at their farm than anywhere we've got to work here, and his Dad will help him with it...

And, not only do I not trust the shop that he had it towed to doing any work on anything, we spent less time and less money fixing it than he would have spent driving down there and back.