2014 Toyota Avalon V6 3.5L Dual Radiator & Condenser Fan Assembly TRQ RFA83593

Hey everyone, Sue here from 1A Auto. And today we have a 2013 Toyota Camry in the shop with a V6 3.5 liter. I'm going to show you how to remove and replace the AC and coolant fan assembly. If you need that part or any other part for your car, click on the link below and head on over to 1AAuto.com. To take the undercarriage shield down, we're going to need a 10 millimeter socket and a body clip tool. This car has had the shield down--somebody replaced it. So for the most part, it should be a 10 millimeter socket. But this one someone put in, they're actually standard 13 or 1/2 inch sockets so I'm just going to take them down. Switch over to the 10. You're going to do the same per side, so there's those three bolts with that little rubber vent--it just directs the air flow. You're going to take those down, and then you're going to have one, two, three, four across the front and then one body clip.

Now I'm going to do the body clip. There's the R for right side, passenger side. And the L for left side. Once your shields are down, you can see the lower part of your radiator, and you'll see the drain right there, the petcock. It's just a plastic butterfly. Sometimes you can do it by hand and sometimes you can't. I just use a pair of small pliers and I just grab it gently and give a slight twist. Then I'll use my hand. I have my catch bucket ready to go. Now we've lowered the vehicle. I'm still draining the radiator while I work on the top here. To let the radiator drain a little faster, I'm going to release the cap and take the pressure off. I just rest it on top. Now, to take the shroud off, the top shroud, these buttons on Toyotas are push in. So you're going to push them in halfway. They all click down. All the way over and now I'm going to pull the whole shroud up with one motion. Put that there. Now I can just lift that aside.

To remove the radiator overflow reservoir tank, it's a 10 millimeter socket for two mounting bolts and then just the hose. I'm just going to take this one off and this one. And all we've got to do is take the overflow hose. Sometimes you just pinch it and pull. And you lift your tank right up. Now I'm going to take the airbox breather off from the radiator support, 10 millimeter socket. Now we undo the vacuum hoses that are attached to it, and then the clips for this. So if you flip it over this way, there we go. Now we can see the actual connectors. And you just get a pair of pliers, or needle-nose pliers, and you can just squeeze these little ears and the piece will pop right out. Before I took the airdam off, I had pre-disconnected the solenoid here. And this is what it looks like. It's just a push-down tab, and it's located right here. It's an EVAP solenoid. Squeeze on the tab and pull it out. Then I undid the harness from the airdam. And now it's attached to the radiator fan shroud. So I'm going to take a body tool, and I'm going to put it right down there and see if I can, hopefully, not break it because I like to reuse the clips. Then get that out of the way.

We're going to take this lower airdam to the airbox. Disconnect that. Now I can see that I have one, two more for this harness alone. And I'm going to get a pair of needle-nose so I don't break it. So you can reach down in there and grab those little tab ears on it and pull that forward like that. That's connected here to this module. As you can see, just push down on this tab and then push it off. One more over here. With the radiator still draining, I'm going to disconnect the upper radiator hose clamp. I'm just going to use a pair of pliers and bring it down. Then I can just grab that hose and give it a quick twist. If it doesn't come free, like this one isn't, some people use big channel lock pliers. I like to be careful with the teeth of a plier on that hose. So they do make a tool that is a pick-like. So they make this tool so that you can place it on a hose and work it between the radiator or the actual attachment part. But the idea is not to damage the hose. Here we go, finally. So now you're going to separate the hose how it sticks to the plastic. Just bring it all the way around. There you go.

Now we have a little clip here holding this harness with the O2 sensor. It's not a necessity, but I don't like to put strain on wires. And that's tension, a lot of tension right there. So I'm just going to undo this clip so that I can fold the upper radiator hose back. Now I've worked on a lot of Toyotas and I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. Take that clamp out of the way. And now we can fold the upper radiator hose up. Make sure it's secure. You don't want it flopping back, spraying coolant all over your face. Then you have to remove the upper radiator support so I'm going to disconnect just the wires to the horns. And you see these buttons right here, just going to push down on that tab to pull the connector off both horns. And now we're going to take these three mounting bolts for this latch. Two for the latch and one for the center post, 10 millimeter wrench. You can actually just leave that attached I think. Actually the cable is going to run through here and there's probably a clip somewhere along the line. So I am going to make sure that that latch is available to can completely out.

Set that down. Now we're going to undo this bracket. Same 10 millimeter wrench and same spot on the other side. Now you can use a socket for the top two, 10 millimeter. Now we should be able to lift this right up with, possibly, a cable over here holding it. There's the cable that I was talking about. So here's the tab, right there, I see it. Nice pair of flat-nose or needle-nose. And we can lift that right up out of the way. Now we're going to undo the AC condenser. It's bolted to the actual radiator with four mounting bolts. Two on the top and two on the bottom. 10 millimeter socket, and we'll just break these free. You don't want to have to disconnect the AC lines just to do this job. That's a whole separate job, an AC service. So let's cut down on the expense and we can go around that. They're not long, they're little short bolts. And then there's two on the bottom. Dropped it. And then one over here. Now you're not going to be able to lift this condenser up and out, it's basically going to stay right in place because the AC lines are attached to it. We're just separating it from the radiator. Okay.

Now at this point we have to take that lower radiator hose off. So I'm going to raise the vehicle back up and take the clamp off of that. And make sure that my automatic tranny lines, which I don't believe go through this radiator on this style--it has a separate cooler. If you have an older model, or a model somewhat like this that doesn't have that separate cooler, there should be, there will be, automatic transmission lines mounted on the bottom. The radiator almost finished draining, just dripping very little. But this, the petcock is above the actual lower radiator. So we're going to get coolant out of this still. So I just hand-tightened that. I'm going to just lock it with my pliers. Just an eighth of a turn right there, you saw it. That way if I don't forget, and I'm reinstalling this radiator, I don't have any leaks. So now to take the clamp off just use a pair of pliers and work it up the hose. Make sure and move your bucket over. And hope you don't get soaked. Let's see if it will even loosen up. Nope. I'll have to use my tool.

And here she comes. So hopefully I don't get. Awesome. Now we can lower the vehicle and pull the radiator and fan shroud from the top. So to take the fan shroud off the radiator, now at this point I'm ready to disconnect. I can pull the whole thing out. My electrical lines are disconnected. The fans are attached to each other, that's the only lines that are left. Lower radiator hose is off. There's no automatic transmission lines to the radiator. So I'm ready to lift this thing up and take it all out. But I want to show you, if you're not replacing your radiator, you don't have to take the whole radiator out with the shrouds if you're doing just the fans. It'd still be just as easy and then you can actually hose your whole radiator down and clean it. So you can let it have a bit of cooling and examine it and make sure there's no pinholes in that radiator or radiator rot. But we're going to just see if we can pull this out. So there's clips, no bolts. You used to have little 10 millimeter head bolts on this. But there's two pinch clips here. I'm going to pull that there. Then I've got two here and two here. And there is our shroud.

Now let's see if it clears everything. It doesn't look like it's going to clear the upper radiator too easy, but we'll see what we can get done. Ah-ha, I see what's going on. So there is a plastic clamp that holds the radiator lower hose to the shroud. So, in order not to get too lost in that, I'm just going to take the clamp off the top of the lower radiator hose, where it meets over here. And we will take the whole hose out with the shroud. There you go. Then we need the tool again. Here we go. There we go. And now let's pull it. Ah, there it is. Not too bad. Now, with the fan shroud out of the way, the radiator is ready to come up. I'm just going to pull it straight up. Now don't forget there's some residual coolant in there. So don't tip it that way. And there's your radiator. Here with have the factory fan shroud with fan and motors and module from our 2013 Toyota Camry. The module has to be transferred over to the one that we just got from our 1A Auto site.

But you can see that it comes with two motors already pre-wired with the same connectors that match that module. Same height. Same mounting mechanisms. Same styles of everything. You've got the mounting holes with the pre-tapped fittings for the overflow tank. So you just have to transfer the module over and everything is lined up the way it goes. If you can see the fans, the fan is the same exact size. Which is a good note because sometimes I see on a lot of these cooling fans they'll have not as many blades, the motor's not the same size. These match up pretty good, almost perfect, so that makes me a little happy. Seven millimeter, or Phillips screwdriver socket. Seven millimeter, snap these bolts right out of here. They already pre-mounted the fittings in there for you. So I've just got to lift that module up and disconnect them. See the pushpins right here? Push down and pull. I'm going to leave them the way they are. They come pre-lined up and it is two different types of connectors, so you can't mess it up. You've got the oval one, which is going to go right in there. And then the other one that's just a rectangle. Now we can line that right up. Where's the pin? There it is.

Make sure you use the guides for where the wire harnesses go in so none fall into the fans. And you should be ready to go. If you need this part or any other part for your car, click on the link below and head on over to 1aauto.com.

Now with the new radiator and the new fan shroud, I'm going to put them together before I assemble them. Put them together in the car at the same time. I'm going to line those up. It's not uncommon for plastic just to be a hair off. You just have to give it a good push and it falls right down in. Now that you've got the upper clips here, three of them across the top. And they're already pre-lined up, I'm just going to push them down and let them click: one, two, three. Ready to go. Now our assembly is ready to put right into the car. All right, now we're going to pick it up and slide it right in. Now that little air thing is going to be the only thing that's going to really, hopefully, be in your way. And the radiator hose. Just push that down over the alternator. I'm going to have to keep pushing that AC condenser a little bit. All right, now let's see if we're in our mounts down there. Nope, I'm going to pick it up. There we go. Okay, that's in. See if we can thread that through.

Now once this is tightened, to do the bottom ones I'm going to raise it up so I can see it. I can see it pretty clearly from down below. Instead of trying to work without being able to see what I'm doing. So now I've got those on. And I'm going to put the top radiator bracket on. And then raise her up. So we've got the two bushings here. I'm going to go right on top of those ears and I'll get the bracket. Okay here comes the radiator support. Now I'm going to grab that release-hood cable and remember how this was mounted. Ah, there it is. Right up there. So make sure you put that down below. And let's find that clip. There it is. And I know that went right in here. Get that out of the way. Oh look at that. Put all the bolts back in. Start them by hand. All right, so I'm going to put the center one in first. None of this is torqued, it's just tight is tight. We've got those two and the bottom one, but I want to tighten that one up. All right, let's put the hood-release latch on. Then the one down below.

All right, let's get that ratchet to work. This one's pretty tight already by hand, yeah. Okay, I'm really going to snug them in. Now I've got these two right here. Nope, that's not fast-forward. That's how fast I am. Don't blink. Not so fast over here. All right. Now let's do the top two. This lovely airbox intake, right there. Now that was, if I put this upper hose on. Clamp, there we go. Ah, thank you. And then we have the lower hose over here on this bracket. Nice. Factory line still has the blue paint on it and lines right up with that notch. Come on now. Did you see that? It was on then it came right off. Beautiful, it looks good. So you have a guide pin here. It's in that shroud, and the two mounting bolts. So line that tab up and place it down. I'm going to put the hose right on. And then you can just take your bolts, start them, and then I can use my electric gun. So now I'm going to work this harness back down over. Oh, see? I jumped to conclusions with that one. There's the cutout, put that harness right in there. Then there's one right down there.

Now we've got the main fan module. That's the wiring right there. You can hear it click. And now I'm going to connect that EVAP connector off of the air housing, upside down. Wonderful. Okay, here we go. Nice. Work the two vacuum lines down in. Mount everything. Lines up. Harness and two little bolts. Now we're going to put our top shroud on. In it's got all these pushpins that you basically push down on them. That's how you pop them out. To put them back in just take the pin and push it all the way up. Use the car and now that's ready to go in. Just push it down flush like that. Now all that is left is to fill it with coolant. So whenever you're doing a radiator, or any coolant-fill system, we sell this. Maybe you've seen one before, but we sell it on our website. And it's a coolant funnel, a self-burper. It works really good. It's been around for a long time. But this kit comes with all new modern stuff. I have one of the original ones that came out, probably close to 15 years ago, I'm not going to date myself. But it doesn't come with all these cool attachments.

So we know we have the European small. So I'm going to use that one. Comes with two of them. You have one that's wider than the other, as far as the prongs go. And all these adapters that go with it. And I like how they're color-coded because, once you use it enough, you can say,