How to Replace Headlight 1998-2000 Toyota Sienna
Created on: 2011-02-02
Watch this video to learn how to replace and service the headlight assembly and bulbs on your 98-00 Toyota Sienna.
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step 1 :Handling the Bulbs
- Note: DO NOT TOUCH the bulbs- the oil from your fingers will burn into the light and foul your bulb.
- Clean with rubbing alcohol and a soft cloth if the bulbs do get touched.
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step 2 :To replace just the headlight bulbs
- Pop the hood and secure it.
- Reach behind the headlight assembly
- Disconnect the harness
- Remove the rubber boot.
- Unclip the wire harness.
- Remove the bulb.
- Reverse process for installation.
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step 3 :Remove parkinglight assembly
- Remove the Phillips screw at the top of the parkinglight assembly
- Pull the parkinglight assembly out.
- Disconnect the harness and bulbs.
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step 4 :Remove the headlight assembly
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Remove the two 10 mm bolts and the one 10 mm nut
- Pull out the headlight assembly.
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step 5 :Install the new headlight assembly.
- Adjust the adjustor screws to match the old headlight assembly for a preliminary beam adjustment.
- Plug in the wiring harness.
- Bolt the headlight assembly in.
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step 6 :Install the parking light assembly
- Plug in the bulb and harness.
- Place the parking light assembly into its seating and bolt in with your Phillips screw and driver.
Tools needed
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Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
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In this video we'll be replacing the headlight. We'll show you how to do the bulb, and then also the whole headlight assembly in case you broke one on this '99 Sienna; same as most of this generation vehicle. Tools you'll need are Phillips screwdriver, ten millimeter wrench, and a four millimeter socket and ratchet.
If what you're looking to do is change your headlight bulb, you want to open the hood and here's the back of your passenger side headlight and just grab this connector, move it around a little bit; it disconnects and then this big rubber boot comes off. Then you have a wire here that you push up, like that. That retainer comes off, bulb comes out, goes back in the same way. Make sure that you put this boot back on, little tabs line up, around and plug the headlight back in.
It's the same thing for the driver side. You can just see it's a little more congested, but you can easily get your hand down in there and do it. If you need to remove your whole assembly, then you're going to start by removing a Phillips screw here for the parking light and once you have that screw out, you're going to pull forward on the lamp and then pull forward down lower; then out and then up. Here's your bulb. Just twist, pull out. Here's the back of your passenger side headlight. Just grab this connector. Move it around a little bit; it disconnects.
With the parking light out of the way, there is a ten millimeter bolt here, a ten millimeter nut here, and then also this ten millimeter nut here. You'll want to hold on to this stud with a four millimeter socket. Show you on this one first. I did spray some penetrating oil on here. I've got a ten millimeter wrench and here's my four millimeter socket. Loosen up that nut and it comes right off.
Okay, now I'll just speed it up here as I remove that nut on the side and the ten millimeter bolt on top. Once the light is unbolted, kind of lift up from the back and pull the inside of it up and out first and rotate it out. Your headlight from 1A Auto, here's the original light. I just want to show you that the headlights from 1A Auto are going to fit just the same as the originals. The only things I would say is, before you install the new light, just look at where the position is. This is your adjuster here, and what I would do is use a four millimeter wrench and just move this adjuster, so it's basically in the same position as this one and the same for this adjuster here.
Make sure your new one ... so I would turn this in. So basically there's the same space between here as here. That will give you a good preliminary aim. I've adjusted my adjusting screws so they're more like the original. Let's put the outside edge in first, work this stud right into its hole. Sometimes this inner adjusting screw, you got to push down on the light a little more to get it in. Everything's in correctly now. I'll just kind of put all the bolts in. Just finger tighten it first.
Okay, and now we'll fast forward through tightening up those three bolts. Then just taking off the film here. Okay, now, replacing the parking light. Just put it in, twist that bulb in, put the tab down in, and then kind of push down a little bit, and back in, and then lock it into place. We'll fast forward through putting that screw back in. Then last but not least, plug in the back.
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