Ok the next thing i started off with was the process of removing the fuel pump..
well 1st put on lift to work on the X if you can if not gets some good jack stands!
next is to figure out what you must remove from the bed of the truck.
does not matter what side you start with just start anywhere!
Take out the 3 bolts that hold in the tail lights and pull out a little and your going to need to twist a little to get the light out. There is a main plug that attaches to the housing...just unclip it and you light is urs...start pulling out the harness, by pushing down in the hole u can see at the bottom there of the lamp.u can use ur fingers to unclip it or needle nose.
you can see here where the bolts are out of the lamp! also take out that pocket that holds in the outlet to unplug it so u can push it down the other whole there...make sure u un clip the harness! this is best so u don't have to replace it and if u cut it and put it in lose it will cause a noise u may one day try find out where the noise coming from. u can wire tie it but that is lazy work, and not good quality work!
you can see the harness that goes to the back of the X above the trailer hitch. they are your tag lamp lights i just pulled them out. and uncliped them from the frame there.
you can see the oval shaped who;e thats the brake lamp harness just unclip it and pull it down.
thats the driver side.
thats the passenger side, do the same as you did the driver side.
i did not get a good picture of this part..was to busy trying to figure it out! you must seperate the fuel neck from the bed so i ended up trying to remove the finder liner and even gone as far as removing the body kit on that coner of the bed. u will need to remove the finder liner to get at the fuel neck, once it is up enough u can just pull the neck out, as it is only rubber around it....as i was lifting the bed i kept going back and forth to each side to make sure the neck and the bed would clear and not hurt the body of the X. if you look once the bed is up in the air. on that corner of the bed. there is an alignment pin that must go back the same way in as it did coming out! thats just a reminder when ur all done with the pump!
Ok this is the harder part of seperating of the bed.
well this is my way of lifting my bed up by myself, when i had no one to help out! plus its hard with that darn lift leg in the way to move my bed out of the way.
That was my hight that i could lift it so i could get under neith it..not good by yourself, but it work for me!
ok you can see the fuel pump. ( Make a note for your self before removing that ring. notice the black dot i have there in pic, thats only the photo...on my 08 model i had this extra alignment mark so it gave the Tech to install this back where it was before removal you can see the arrows also is for that alignment that ring alignment must be in between those arrow marks when u get it tight..If you do not have that, just make your self a mark on the ring and on the tank...Now if you don't have that toyota special tool to remove that ring, you can use some realy large chanel locks..i used a flat tip screw driver ( a good size flat tip) and malot...before i got this far, theres is a black cover that must go back on it and the wire harness and fuel lines i took off. Theres 2 yellow clips that hold the fuel lines in...pull them all the way out and wiggle them off..just make sure not to get splashed in the face i used a towel to cover them as i pulled them up.....before u do all this( unscrew the fuel cap to releive the fuel pressure.) there is a discharge procedure to do to releive fuel...if you want to do this ,be all means. My way was a lot quicker than that and it releive presssure from the tank and lines...there will be some fuel coming out of the lines that is normal! (not a lot of fuel, onces u start working on the injectors there will be fuel up there doing it my way... your engine will be cooled of by this time. i used rages to sock up the fuel).
Ok you can see the pump out and i disconnected the harness from the pump top. OK u can see that you will get the instruction to this. im not realy goingt o talk much about how to do this just give you photos, so i don't bore you to crap! it just takes some time to do. tools i used was a drimel tool with a saw wheel bit that work great for me. wire tool, flat tip, used a air hose adapter where it was the correct size to put on this clip ring for the filter...use what u may have, but its good to put on level..
Make sure that the rings beveled end is facing down to the tip, so it locks in place!
the instructions will tell you how to do the measurements and where to cut at...thats what those little slots are from my drimel tool so u can run the band threw!
make sure your filter not get in the way of that flap. also make sure pump is all the way down and pressed to the wall of the pump housing...so u can get the band to be tight around pump. before you do this put on the hose and harness in make hose is tight on the fitting. so not leak past hose and you lose some pressure.
you can see the band is around it now and tight and cut off the excess!
takes a bit to get it tight, it is good to get it tight so it does not bounce around in there. theres some other pics i did not take. but the instructions will explain all for you. there a high pressure hose u must cut off to be able to put that new fuel hose on. At the beginning of the fuel pump u see on the table...theres a real skinner hose thats hard plastic, that will come off with the removal....you will not put that back on...there is more to due but im not boring you with it.....Then once you get it put together just reinstall the pump and everything back together in reverse order!
Rob....scouts out