Camry Nav Backup Camera Install in a Tundra

[rcltrh]

Ok, got one of my cameras installed today in my Tundra. Not too difficult a job. I have outlined the steps to install the camera in the Tundra Double Cab once you already have the NAV installed per Rich's post.

1. Obtain an '04 SIENNA camera from Toyota or wherever you can get one.

2. Obtain about 30 feet of 18 or 20 guage 3 conductor stranded plus shield wire. I bought 18 guage and could have made do with 20 I'm sure. Mine cost me about $4 at a local electrician's store here in town.

3. Pull your NAV system out so you can get to the empty white 4 pin socket connector on the right hand side by the blue socket. (Follow Rlockyer's instructions for removing the center console and nav unit).

4. I began by crawling under the truck to find a good access point for the wiring entering the cab. The best choice for me was under the driver's seat where a huge bundle of lighting and trailer wiring wires entered the cab. I removed the plastic threshold and kick panels, raised the carpet a couple inches and pushed the end of my wire up through the grommet, leaving the rest under the truck.

5. I pulled about 8 feet of wire up into the cab, routed it down along the carpet edge, up over the emergency brake and steering column, and out from where I had removed the NAV system. I then reinstalled the kick and rocker panels that I had removed.

6. Next, I stripped back the ends of the cable to reveal about 2 inches of the 3 plastic coated wires plus the uncoated shield wire.

7. You have a couple choices for connecting the wires to the jack pins. If you can get the actual 4 pin female receptacle, great. If you're like me, you cant find one anywhere so you have to be creative with something else. There isnt much room in that plug, so if you use regular push on blade types be sure they dont touch. I found that the little plugs with attached wires that connect front panel LED's to computer motherboard pins work perfectly. They are just the right width and have 2 pins each when placed horizontally over two pins in the back of the radio. There are 4 pins, so you need two of these connectors. Radio shack and your local computer store should have an abundance. I am a computer tech so I had hundreds.

8. Your color coding really doesnt matter as long as you remember what goes where. I chose to use the actual colors that the '04 Sienna Wiring Diagram schematic uses - red, black, white, and shield (which was also the colors of the internal 3 stranded wires I bought at the electrical store), and my computer motherboard plugs just so happened to come in red & black, and white & yellow so I used the yellow for the shield and the rest just connected color to color.

9. After connecting the plugs to the wiring cable, if you used the same 4 colors I did, you simply orient the plugs and push them over the pins to make (when looking into the plug from the back) the red on the top left, the black top right, the white bottom left, yellow (shield) bottom right. This is how the Toyota Sienna Color coding goes for the harness. If you use your own other colors, just make a chart to convert your colors from what mine are on both ends.

10. Now you can put the nav unit back into the dash. You are done inside the cab.

11. Now, crawling under the vehicle, quick clip, tape, tie, or whatever your choice is to get the cable tied to supporting lines up under the vehicle to reach to the back. I used mostly the wiring harness that was already there to zip tie my wire to.

12. Once you reach the bumper, you can be creative in how you figure out how to mount the camera. Being a computer person, I ended up tearing apart an old computer power supply, and took tin snips to its case and found the camera fits perfectly in the place where I removed the plastic ac cord receptacle - complete with lined up holes for the camera. I then painted it black and mounted it under the bumper to the left of the trailer hitch using the single black under the bumper bolt that was already there. After figuring out a mount, you need to either have 2 more sets of the computer motherboard LED plugs, have another female 4 pin receptacle, or cut off the plug and hard wire the stripped ends to your cable. I chose the latter and heat shrink tubed it after connecting all the wires and taping them with black tape. Here is where your wiring matters.

Your SIENNA camera has 4 colored wires. Black, Red, White, and Yellow. The colors DO NOT MATCH the radio hookup. After hooking my dash unit up according to color code, it was odd that the camera itself was wired differently. If you choose not to remove the jack from the camera wires, just pull back the plastic to see the colors and make sure you make your wiring from the unit connect to the right colors using your plug or computer plugs.

If you use the color codeing that I used, you need to connect

the Red wires together (top left radio to red wire camera).

Connect the black wire from the radio to the yellow wire on the camera (top right radio to yellow on camera).

Connect the white wire from the radio to the black wire on the camera (bottom left radio to black camera)

Connect the shield wire from the cable to the white wire on the camera (bottom right radio to white camera)

Orient the camera in the mount so that where the wiring enters the metal back of the camera is toward the bottom. (the wiring enters the camera slightly off center)

Turn on your key to acc or start the engine, shift into reverse, and voila. You have a nice color picture of whats behind you with a safety message about watching your surroundings or something like that.

If I can figure out how to put some pics in here I will add them to a reply. Right now when I click to add an attachment I get some "similar posts" popup. Dunno whats going on there.

If any of you decide to do this and need those flat computer motherboard LED plugs email me and I can send you some.
Thomas

[rcltrh]

Pics - in no particular order - but I believe you can figure them out.
Thomas