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Toyota Techs Are Smacking Tundra Engines With a Hammer to See if They Need Replacing

Tim Esterdahl

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Toyota has a new way to inspect certain 2022-2024 Tundra engines, and yes, it involves a plastic hammer. Tim breaks down Toyota’s V35A crank bearing inspection, why the automaker is testing these engines, how an accelerometer and software are used to analyze the results, and why this unusual-sounding procedure is actually based on established engineering principles.

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