The frames have arrived

So dealer said frames have arrived but not a wiring harness. Supposedly it will be another 4 weeks for harness. Hope to have my truck back by Summer.

 

OK so now dealer called Friday and said they were in middle of frame replacement . I asked if they had received the wiring harness. He said it was good and it didn't need new one. What do you think? BS? I called Toyota and asked for clarification.

 

I am in the same boat as you, and if i have the option to keep my existing harness ill take it. Nothing wrong with it before, no reason to believe it needs to be replaced..

 

I havent been following the frame replacement threads, but why are they replacing the wiring harness? Seems like they could easily reuse that.

 

If given the option, I would wait for a new harness as well. I mean what's another 4 weeks of waiting? Get as much as you can replaced for free. You never know what will fail in the future. Just my 2 pennies.

 

Yea, but there's no reason that a wiring harness should fail. The sensors or ecu attached at either end might, but I can't come up with any reason that it'll just stop transmitting signals lol.

 

Can't corrosion get inside the wiring jacket and harness itself ? I don't see why not

 

Because their ripping off one frame and attaching it to another. The insulation on the wires does get old and could get brittle.

 

Yea, connectors can corrode. But thats usually a one shot deal. I think in all the cars I've owned, I only had one connector that really needed scrubbing. After cleaning and spraying it a few times, I gave up and bought a new sensor and connector.
I guess I'm thinking they (toyota) had a larger scale reason for replacing them. I suppose it is just to allow the techs to be wreckless with removal.

But you're not ripping it off really. Wires running along the frame are likely only held on by a plastic strap which can just be popped off and on.
Brittle? We're not dealing with 50 year old cars here lol.

Anyway, I'm not advocating they stop replacing. I'm just not seeing the reason.

 

I just talked to my dealer yesterday, and that's pretty much what he said.

He also said that because of the backlog, Toyota has relaxed their requirement to replace the harnesses, and are allowing certain frames be replaced with the old harness. He said Toyota has write up on how to carefully remove it, and re-install on the new frame.

I have been waiting 9 months for mine, and don't mind waiting a little longer for a new harness, but my inspection is up this month, so I may end up with the old one.

 

had my frame replaced on my 2001.. 2 yrs ago, took 4 days and i had it back,,fyi, never had a problem with it afterwards,,

 

They didnt replace the harness on mine and never mentioned it and they certainly did not remove the old harness carefully. they broke every plastic clip holding it to the frame and left it pretty much dangling.

After i brought it back and complained their solution was to zip tie the broken clips back to the frame.

 

That sucks. Those guys sound like hacks.

You would think even if they were going to re-use the harness, they would have at least put some fresh clips on it.

What dealer is was it?

 

I talked to my dealer yesterday and he told me that he "found a way around waiting for the harness". I assume this means there is a TSB on how to safely re-use the old harness... and im OK with that.

I know that my harness is corroded near the back of the truck... theres a plug about 2 feet back from the 7 pin trailer plug, and the wiring had corroded so bad that i had to bypass the harness with one wire to get the 7 pin to funtion properly.

I wish i could wait for a new harness, but they wont give me a truck and i need a truck! Plus i dont think they would let my truck sit while waiting for a harness anyway... now that they have this new TSB to reuse the old one...