The rear door does not lift high enough for a pallet lifter or small forklift to load and unload pallets. Eveything is on pallets these days and so this is a problem. I note some toyota hiaces had provision to unscrew struts a half turn and the door would lift a lot higher to facilitate loading. Can you help?
The Door has 2 lifting "shocks" on either side - these provide a reduction in door weight, to make it easier to lift the door ( it's heavy!) These lifts have a compression socket that fits onto a ball on the vehicle. Popping the strut end off of the ball with a flat bladed screwdriver will allow you to open further - BUT it will also disable and lifting assistance, and the door will not stay open on its own. If you decide to pop off one end of the strut for loading purposes, you'll need to cut a piece of wood to keep the door open for loading.
As I do NOT recommend this ( it could cause grave personal injury if the wood falls out or is bumped, and it could destroy that door if it falls ) It would be better to use a trailer for transporting whatever you're getting on pallets!!
Hope this helps and thanks for using Fixya!
SOURCE: Rear air ride suspension is not maintaining height
The are ride height adjusters the look like arms. they are mounted on the bottom of the struts and lower control arms that control the height The can be adjust but for the most part if the were working fine before then they need to be replaced. Make sure that there are no leaks in the system.
SOURCE: Rear struts failed after dealer put car on lift.
you have a reason to be doubtful. very seldom would something like that occur unless the srut was near it's peak functionming and starting to fail. the strut is always under pressure because of the spring so " not meshing sounds bogus to me. i have been a mechanic for over 20 years and i can't give you one example of this happening on your model of car or any other models. to be quite honest a strut that fails only after 4-5 years very seldom happens to begin with. but does happen. my advice is to take it to a small shop whjere the quality of work is better and the cost cheaper and have them examine it. let me know what they say and get back to me. just click my user name on this site i will be more than happy to help you further if there is more questions that you have
SOURCE: Rear door
Here's a link to the detailed instructions for this repair. It's not too difficult, just a little tedious dealing with small parts.
Good luck!
http://www.findonefindall.com/toyota-sienna/siennareardoor.htm
SOURCE: 2003 toyota sequoia rear door latch broken
First, take off the license plate
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Since the hatch wouldn't open, I started from the inside and took down the top trim piece. After that the two side pieces come down, then the main trim piece which covers the bulk of the door comes out. These are all popped in with the white tabs.
There are 3 access hole covers to pop out (don't forget to install them back in when done) and through the left hole you can see the mechanism to unlatch, press it down with a screwdriver and open the door. If anytime you close the door you will have to do this to unlatch, up until you disconnect the cable and pull out the handle, then you have to locate the cable and pull that directly.
Behind the large trim piece you will find a metal access cover, remove the 7 or 8 10mm bolts holding that on and pop the 3 white tabs and let it hang off to the side. Disconnect the cable from the handle assembly by reaching in from the right hand side and popping of the cable from the handle assembly.
From the left and right access holes, locate the two 10mm nuts which hold the license plate assembly to the door and remove them. Then there are 4 plastic tabs that come in from the outside that hold the license plate assembly on in each corner, try and locate those and using some pliers squeeze them together and push it through. Next locate the license plate lamps wire connector and release that from the left side, it’s the simple push in and pull out square white connector.
After these are out, put back in 1 or 2 bolts into the large metal access cover so the hatch can be lowered (don’t close it).
Here is where I had fun, begin to pop out the assembly that it was bolted to. I ended up breaking 3 of the 4 plastic tabs in each corner because I did not use pliers from the other side to pull them out, however it remained somewhat useable (hindsight 20/20).
Now the license plate assembly can be taken to a bench to replace the handle assembly (Toyota doesn't sell just the handle, it is a small assembly). Two screws out and the assembly is replaced.
Before pressing the license plate assembly back onto the truck, make certain all the plastic tabs are in the assembly and not in the truck. Reverse the process to re-install.
SOURCE: 1995 Chev Suburban rear door latch stuck in locked position
sounds like you lached the door
use a screw driver or some such tool
lift the outer handle and slip your tool in the middle of the lock hole in the door flip the lach open wile holding handle up
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