halza

I have a 97ltd and my eng. check light came on today, naturally I freaked out after my baby gave me the first problem after 100k , right away I went to the dealer but as always you have to make an appoinment.....anyway after doing some reading on my chilton's manual I found the problem, the ALT 100 fuse in the engine compartment was broken, this is the fuse that has the clear plastic cover, after I sort of put it together as a temporary fix the check eng. light disappeared, I went to buy the fuse but could not take the old one out, it has a bolt at the bottom that holds it and I took the bolt out but the fuse wouldn't come out.
Does anyone know how to take this fuse out?

By the way they were going to charge me $80 bones just to do the diagnostic and who knows how much more when they found the problem, so it feels good no to get ripped off for a change.

AverysDad

if its anything like my taco.........theres a bolt on the other side that you have to take the fuse box apart to get to.

it wasnt hard..........just a few bolts and the box comes apart. probably took me about 10 minutes total to replace.

midiwall

Just to comfort you Halza... I've had the same trouble for a while now and haven't gotten around to asking about it.

Thanks!


And thank you Dad of Avery for the answer.

MTL_4runner

Get yourself an OBD reader and diagnostics become much easier and cheaper!
Yeah I never take my truck to the dealer either.

halza

problem solved, it's amazing what daylight can do!!! the fuse box splits in half, it has about 5 clips that hold it together, I didn't lift the whole thing up but I was able to lift it enough so I was able to see the other bolt, I put the new fuse in and that was it.