Originally Posted by scope103

How on earth can you do a "total rebuild" of a complex modern engine without the manual ("elusive" or not)? How do you know what the torques are?

The manual has a detailed procedure for removing, checking, and reinstalling the oil pump. http://personal.utulsa.edu/~nathan-b...118oilpump.pdf Note that there is nothing in there about vaseline or priming the oil pump. (I've rebuilt other engines where the manual did call for packing the pump, so I think the Toyota engineers knew what they were doing when they left that out.)

So I really doubt the no-oil-pressure issue is due to priming. I'm guessing it something as simple as a disconnected pickup. But it's only a guess; if it were mine I'd pull the pan, look, and (probably) start over, with the help of the manual.