V35A-FTS V6TT teardown by Dave (Dave's Auto Center)

[DubDub]

Being a Sequoia owner I am constantly trying to keep up with the latest on this issue, especially as we continue to rack the miles in our family trips. What I still can’t iron out flat is the hard barrier between recall coverages of standard and iforce-max powertrains. Toyota seems to believe, or at least expect consumers to believe that the iforcemax is wholly unaffected by these persistent issues. Trying to aggregate data on instances of failure is hard enough, forget the iforce-max/standard impact assessment. Our’s has not showed any indications of failure (1k breakin, 5k changes performed), and I do believe this is impacting <1% of V35s, but we keep family cars for 150k miles and I’m not sure my nerves will allow me to hang on that long. We’ll see…

 

[GR8Santini]

None of us can fix anything about casting & machining issues circulating about. You can change the oil filter & remove what debris & dirt/by products it is catching. There might be situations where the oil filter bypass valve opens letting caught debris circulate. Bad day. Own 2 of V35A’s & have to trust Toyota to stand behind them.

 

[Sugarloafer80]

If MOG is onto something like running ultra low rpms minimizing lubrication, I again, would rather run oil that doesnt drain off quite as quickly. I washed car Friday, after it sat in garage dirty after driving down from Maine.....the motor is more QUIET, smooth sounding. All new oil changes sound good...this was after a 1000 trip. Roundtrip average well over 23mpg.

Again, hor does your oil analysis look? Signs of abnormal wear?

 

[Sugarloafer80]

I Hope your break in change neutralized most of the issues. GOOD LUCK! Any oil analysis?

 

[Mopper]

...add margin, not repair root cause...

MOG is sharp and makes a good case. If he's right how long before a lower volume electric 'keeper' pump shows up?