95 pickup - recall - extra work

Interestingly, I have also got the steering linkage recall notice for my '94 V6 SR5 AUTO 4RUNNER. It is so surprising, I have bought it used just recently at about 192,000 miles (NO TYPO HERE).

I am also wondering what other services can be done cheap while the delaer is doing the recall work. The recall notice says the job will take about 4 hours. I think my 4RUNNER need new front half-shafts as I hear ticking noise when 4x4 is engaged and right turns.

TIA.

There really isn't much to this recall for the linkage. Take off two castle nuts, remove steering rod, replace steering rod, tighten nuts. The actual labor process once the car is in the shop for this is about 15 minutes, especially since we've been doing a dozen a day for the past two months. So anyway, there isn't anything else you can really piggy back ontop of the existing labor already being paid by Toyota.

Does this recall apply to 1992 Toyota PickUps?

It applied to my 91. If you email toyota with your VIN they'll be able to tell you all of the outstanding recalls. I had three done this January. Head Gasket, Steering Rod and Headlights and wiring.

HTH,

-Andrew

thanks. I had it done yesterday and the service advisor could not tell me one way or another.

Also, they first mentioned that they would perform an alignment and then they retracted this. Is it necessary after this work?

I did not think they were still doing head gasket recalls. I had the Head Gasket replaced at 90K miles, and it blew again at 180K miles. I wonder since they replaced it the first time, if they will cover it again. I too got the Steering Rod notice, but I was going to get the head gasket fixed first. BTW I have a 93 4Runner SR5.

The head gasket recall was for the 3VZ-E 3.0L V6. I remember hearing the