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Toyota Sienna Struts Installation Instructions

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The struts in your Toyota Sienna are designed to regulate the rebound of the springs every time you go over an irregular road surface. As you may imagine, this happens very incessantly while driving, which causes the struts to wear over several thousand cycles of compressing and rebounding. When this happens, the struts lose their ability to control the rebound of the spring, creating a bouncy and uncomfortable ride in your Sienna. In addition to the annoyance, it has been shown that worn struts can enhance braking times as a result of the inertia of the car will get transferred to the entrance of the automobile during braking, presumably lifting the rear wheels off the ground slightly, decreasing or eliminating their braking ability.

Toyota Sienna Struts Installation Instructions

1. Loosen the lug nuts on each wheel with the lug-nut wrench. You should find the lug-nut wrench within the hatch of your Sienna.
2. Jack the Sienna and place on jack stands. Remove the wheels.
3. Comply with one of many struts to where it meets the steering knuckle. Note that it is pinched in the knuckle by two bolts holding it in place. Remove those two bolts with a ratchet on one end and a wrench on the opposite to carry the nut.
4. Pull the strut out of the steering knuckle.
5. Open the hood and find the studs of the strut tower protruding from the sheet steel on either aspect of the engine bay. Use a ratchet to take away the nuts. Be ready for the strut meeting to drop. Remove the strut meeting from the Sienna.
6. Place one aspect of the strut compressor on the upper portion of the spring, and the opposite aspect of the strut compressor on the lowest portion of the spring. Then tighten the compressor with a ratchet. This relieves pressure on the meeting and lets you remove the strut. If you don’t use a strut compressor, you may endure serious private injury or dying from the strut hardware capturing dangerously upward toward you.
7. Place a wrench on the nut holding the strut tower on the strut, then place locking pliers on the top of the strut in order that the strut would not spin when you attempt to remove the nut. Loosen the nut together with your left hand, and hold the locking pliers in the right hand.
8. Pull the strut out of the assembly and place the new one in. Tighten the nut that holds the strut to the strut tower.
9. Slowly decompress the spring till it pushes against the strut on the bottom and the strut tower at the top.
10. Place the assembly within the wheel properly, push the studs of the strut meeting by means of the sheet metallic within the engine bay, and then screw the nuts onto the threads to hold the strut meeting up. Tighten the nuts with a ratchet.
11. Place the strut in the steering knuckle and tighten the two bolts that you simply removed earlier.
12. Place the wheel again on. Repeat the method on the three other corners of the car. The one difference for changing the struts in the rear is that as an alternative of elevating the hood to entry the nuts holding the strut meeting in place, you will have to enter the hatch and take away the plastic trim protecting the nuts. It will likely be positioned straight above the strut assembly. It is a circular disc that can be eliminated by prying between the disc and the interior trim.
13. Increase the Sienna excessive enough to clear the jack stands. Remove the jack stands and decrease the Sienna to the ground.


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