Did they check the fan clutch? It is one of the most over looked items
Over heating only while towing : UPDATE!
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BIG UPDATE!!!
After a total dead end with corporate and the dealer, my buddy and I decided to tear it open and see if we could solve this issue on our own. My buddy is a very good mechanic and has been screaming from day one that there is a clog causing a flow problem. Everything stemmed from the radiator cap falling apart, that’s where all my problems started. Now keep in mind, I told this to the service writer at the dealer, the tech himself and even the service manager….I even sent them all the link to this forum with photos of others with debris in the crossover from the cap and asked them to check. I was told it was a million to one shot that that could be the problem…. needless to say, they never looked. I handed them a possible solid solution on a silver platter, and they shrugged it off. Complete incompetence or total laziness….. either way, I learned a valuable lesson with this whole ordeal. My wife and I just finished building our new house. After 2 years of construction, my biggest take away from the whole process was …. pride in craftsmanship is dead, and nobody cares. It was a full time job baby sitting shitty, lazy subs that do half assed work. This truck repair wasnt much different.
My buddy took the truck to his house Sunday afternoon. He had a plan and knew right where to start. First thing he removed was the large hose going from the top of the radiator to the crossover pipe. 10 minutes into the job, and what do we have here?…
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Yep, you guessed it, he found cap debris, and lots of it. It was exactly where the original guy who posted before found it, right in the bowl of the crossover pipe, just before the temp sensor. Right where I told the Toyota tech to look. Unbelievable how much debris was in there.
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We had to order new gaskets and grab another gallon of coolant (of course from another dealer), but he completely pulled the crossover pipe out to inspect and clean. He’ll be putting everything back together this evening and I will test it with the big trailer in the morning. I am very grateful for my friends help and knowledge as well as the help and knowledge of this forum. If not for that original post finding this issue, I would have given up on it. I went thru 2 months of total bullshit with the dealer and limping around town so the truck wouldn’t over heat. My friend found the problem in 10 minutes.
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After a total dead end with corporate and the dealer, my buddy and I decided to tear it open and see if we could solve this issue on our own. My buddy is a very good mechanic and has been screaming from day one that there is a clog causing a flow problem. Everything stemmed from the radiator cap falling apart, that’s where all my problems started. Now keep in mind, I told this to the service writer at the dealer, the tech himself and even the service manager….I even sent them all the link to this forum with photos of others with debris in the crossover from the cap and asked them to check. I was told it was a million to one shot that that could be the problem…. needless to say, they never looked. I handed them a possible solid solution on a silver platter, and they shrugged it off. Complete incompetence or total laziness….. either way, I learned a valuable lesson with this whole ordeal. My wife and I just finished building our new house. After 2 years of construction, my biggest take away from the whole process was …. pride in craftsmanship is dead, and nobody cares. It was a full time job baby sitting shitty, lazy subs that do half assed work. This truck repair wasnt much different.
My buddy took the truck to his house Sunday afternoon. He had a plan and knew right where to start. First thing he removed was the large hose going from the top of the radiator to the crossover pipe. 10 minutes into the job, and what do we have here?…
Yep, you guessed it, he found cap debris, and lots of it. It was exactly where the original guy who posted before found it, right in the bowl of the crossover pipe, just before the temp sensor. Right where I told the Toyota tech to look. Unbelievable how much debris was in there.
We had to order new gaskets and grab another gallon of coolant (of course from another dealer), but he completely pulled the crossover pipe out to inspect and clean. He’ll be putting everything back together this evening and I will test it with the big trailer in the morning. I am very grateful for my friends help and knowledge as well as the help and knowledge of this forum. If not for that original post finding this issue, I would have given up on it. I went thru 2 months of total bullshit with the dealer and limping around town so the truck wouldn’t over heat. My friend found the problem in 10 minutes.
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