Removing fuel tank lock ring

We had a thread about that:

Help please - removing fuel pump without special spanner wrench thingy | PriusChat

The thread shows what Toyota's special tool looked like. Georgina also linked to this similar tool.

In a pinch, I might try to fab something that would work, using some 1-bys and a Dremel maybe.

 

Still kind of like a farm jug they just not giving you enough of a hole to take it off without their special tool or without fabbing something up out of one buys or even metal if you have a welder I don't think it's on there that tightly like I say you could probably tap tap it on one of the plastic ears gently of course and it'll probably just loosen right up If not you can get the Amazon tool well pretty much overnight and that will get you into the space or you can't get your hand or practically anything else by design corolla's another Toyota's aren't done like this there's room the metal plate is enormous

 

Yes you don't need to do anything slap in the pump drop it in the tank put it all back together clamp your ring down Make sure there's gas in the tank hello. Cycle the car off and on a couple of times that'll prime the pump Go ahead and start the car and step on the gas or back it up and let the engine come in naturally whatever and it will pretty much immediately fire up It's the same as running out of gas in the generation 3 or an older generation even That's why they have electric pumps now One reason anyway and they're self-priming no problem they just work and yours will too No you're not going to burn it up because it's not pumping fuel the second it comes on which that's not true it actually will be it'll suck it right through the mechanism and start pushing on it but there's air in some of the line but it's going to push it right on out least it does here on all the cars that we have that are changeable pumps

 

I literally just did this yesterday on my 2011. You'll need to remove the plastic keeper that doubles as a support for the fuel line. A little prying on the tab with a screwdriver and it came out fairly easily. The two tabs you see may be part of the fuel pump assembly. You don't need to remove them. They act as location tabs so the assembly is clocked right. I just used a bearing driver and hammer on the larger tab to turn the lock ring so it would come out of the tank. I suppose you could also drive on the tabs that engage with the tank locking ring. Came out easily with no drama. No need for a special tool. Installation is reverse of removal.

 

If you have the car sitting ready and somebody sitting in the car and they step on the gas pedal generally the engine will try to come on but also should give you a call for fuel and you should be able to feel the pump in the tank buzzing and if you had a mechanic stethoscope even with the engine attempting to start or what have you you should hear the solid buzz in the fuel tank that buzz can only come from the fuel pump the sending unit and all that stuff can't replicate that sound every one of my Prius that I have on purposely run out of fuel when I first buy the car so I can see where the gauge is see where the pips are and all that stuff All I do is pour a gallon and a half of fuel out of a red mower can that's sitting here right now I'm looking at it and I get in the car and push the button back up go forward and then step on the gas to the floor to make the engine come on the pump primes the car starts almost immediately and I'm sitting there listening to the radio I guess or doing whatever getting ready to go to the end of the street whatever and it's the same in all my other Toyotas I personally have not had to do this in a generation 3 but it's the same layout as Corolla IS 250 any of that stuff regular pump inside of a hole in the gas tank relay it's possible usually Toyota relays go more than the distance.

 

Maybe something to replicate the beam-style tool could be cobbled, say with a 1x2 with a couple of protruding bolts??

I see part no for the Toyota tool:

09808-14020

I doubt Amayama's selling a lot:

Buy Genuine Toyota 0980814020 (09808-14020) Mounting. Prices, fast shipping, weight - Amayama

Repair Manual info attached:

 

I think the one that Amazon or eBay has for the $19 would be able to work actually quite well looks like looks like it's thin enough to just get in there and to be able to clamp around the lock ring and stay on while you use a socket or a wrench to manipulate the tool and get the top off of course a blunt drift and the mallet work just as well. So there's always that I mean if you're just one that has to have a tool.

 

Yes it's kind of a universal tool It looks like a small metal bar with two pieces that slide on it and it would kind of duplicate a one by with some screws sticking out of it to grab the diameter or the nubs of the plastic that turn the tank lid anyway no matter you don't need it.

 

Scrap of wood with two nails? Or lap two pieces, put them together as a cross, and 4 nails. Or sub bolts, screws, something that'll lock more positively.

 

A brief conversation with a Dremel might have shown it the error of its ways.

 

That worked for some E-Bay centre caps I got, "genuine" ones.

 

A flat file can be used as well, it's slow but you have a lot of control over where and how much material you are removing.

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