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Geoff, Are you able to let me know how far / high you had to get your car into the air to successfully drop the tank? I guess my next step will depend on that distance. Hope everything goes well for you when you are tackling it. Thanks

Jeez that's unfortunate. Here's hoping the next one makes it to the right place. I've spent a long time looking, but I haven't seen any videos or images where that mechanism has come out through the inspection hole - I really hope I've just been looking in the wrong place! I've got my fingers crossed for you Geoff!!

I was hoping for a trivial issue like a blockage, but seems Im out of luck....

Just tested before - I think its dead. No noise - nothing. I also note that the power supply I have actually delivers a really high-pitched noise when it is on. When you connect it to something, that noise goes away. In this case, when I connect to the terminals, the noise remains. I'm going to have to get inside to look further. Unfortunately, I simply don't have the room to do a job like that. Geoff, did you have any luck getting yours out through the inspection hole mate? I'd seen a few Lexus owners actually cut the inspection hole to get this part out without dropping the tank. Each to their own, but I'm looking to avoid anything that invasive....

I've just got a price from Toyota up here in QLD for the whole replacement unit... (OUCH!!!! 😭) I would share more information on my investigation so far, but apparently, I am a spam bot and can upload pictures, but not write the story to go with it.... without being pulled up for it...... I can tell you that I am getting no suction on what I believe is the fuel line from the sub to main tank. I am however getting 13v on the fuel pump connection. It comes on for a moment before going off. I'm guessing because of this error. Perhaps the rail stops delivering power..... My next step is to apply 12v to the pump and see if I can hear it in the tank making any noise. Surely, I'd be able to hear something with the car not running - if it is working?

Gidday Geoff, Your comment above is probably one of the most comprehensive ones relating to this issue - at least that I've come across so far. I've a cruiser of the same vintage and saw the dreaded flashing light a few months back. This all came to a head for me this week when I went to visit my old man. Obviously, some sort of warning but didn't really understand the actual issue. I thought a sender unit issue in the beginning. I'd been driving around with the light flashing for some time. As far as I was concerned, I had a whole tank of fuel - that is until I went to leave - the bloody car wouldn't kick over. I did manage to get it going and headed off down the road only to find that the vehicle stalled at a set of lights a few Ks down the road. I got it going again and limped it into a service station. I put 50L of fuel into it; the engine kicked over after a bit and away I went. I had wondered exactly what my issue was up until this time and had arrived at the conclusion that no fuel was being pumped from the aux tank into the main. Your info above has now filled in the gaps and reaffirms what I was thinking - thankyou. Essentially this error means you lose your ability to pump from the sub tank to the main one. This is a LOT of fuel for me as I have a long-range sub tank. I'm glad this happened in town and not in the middle of nowhere... I am likely to take the same steps as you are above. Can you please keep us in the loop with how it goes? Do you have any further information about the fuel pump you purchased? Any links and feedback? Were you able to remove the pump through the inspection hole? I'm guessing not? I have the benefit of not having any seats in the rear of my 200. I have an extended set of draws and they can be removed in sections (middle section can be removed without having to remove the entire rear section) so I should be able to reach the inspection hole a little easier. Still a bit of work, but I'm glad I'm not removing seats.... Thanks again for your post - it's been very helpful to me. I hope you can provide more info on how you went with the replacement. Regards Steve