Toyota Torago 97 Help...

For most Toyotas, to remove the radio, you have to first remove the trim surrounding the radio, which is generally snapped in place. After removing the trim, the screws that hold the radio in place will be visible.

I can't believe this question has popped up so soon after I had to go through this nightmare. I had a new CD player ready to go in to ours, but had trouble removing the old tape deck. My Father -in-law and myself started by making various attempts to gently coax out the old player with the correct U-shaped whatsits. Over a period of about an hour, our efforts became increasingly violent, until we engaged in what can only be described as the "burrowing method". Basically, after we had caused irreparable damage to the face plate, we eventually resorted to using a crow-bar, a narrow chisel, and a bloody big hammer to burrow through the centre of the unit, pulling out little bits at a time until we found the screws holding the chassis of the stereo in place. It is secured on either SIDE, and I'm buggered if I know how you are supposed to get a screw-driver down the side. We seriously used the chisel and hammer to split the buggers, finally removing the remaining mangled mess. Needless to say, I'm not recomending you follow our example, and there is probably a perfectly reasonable explanation & more professional way of doing it. My wife and kids thought this was all good fun until, after all of this, we found that the new unit required a completely different connector, meaning we went for 2 weeks with no Wiggles/Hi5/Saddle Club tunes (actually, sounds like heaven in hindsight) and a heap of wires hanging out of the dash!! Whenever other passengers saw the mess and asked what had happened, my 3YO proudly announced "daddy & poppy fixed it!" Good luck.