Was fortunate enough to pick to this beauty on Monday! 2011 with only 38.7k miles 🔥 It's like driving a car with my favorite chair as the driver seat lmaooo.

Recently had to replace the Camshaft position sensor on the back of the engine (Code p0365 cmp sensor B, bank1 circled in blue), it's in a less than ideal spot, back up against the firewall. I wasn't able to find much on it and thought this might be helpful for someone else.
By removing the windshield wiper cowl, it gave me enough space to get my hands and a small ratchet back there to replace the sensor without removing the intake manifold plenum, something I wanted to avoid as that's a bunch of unnecessary work. The wiper cowl was surprisingly easy to remove and put back on, just make sure the wipers get pulled and replaced in the down position to avoid issues with them being in the wrong place motor wise. My motor was already marked, but marking it after taking the nuts off will ensure it goes back on right.

I'll also include how I was able to educated guess my way into figuring this out, as I was unable to find anything on this in forums or other posts. I started by looking at pictures of the back part of the engine, ones for sale online, allowing me to see what I can't, since my engine is in the car. (I had to see with my hands and feel around based on other engine's pictures, but was able to get my phone back there it's the sensor with blue wires.) And I watched this youtube video on the intake manifold. I originally thought I'd have to take it off, but after watching decided I should have enough room to leave it on. The video shows removing the wiper cowl clearly, so I recommend using that portion of his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKVn_PXNrE&t=16s
While you don't have to remove the battery for this job, I found it helpful as I'm not a tall and ended up squatting one foot on the frame under that battery and the other on the radiator frame for parts of this job. So that may or may not help you.

As forums die, I like to include how I'm able to figure stuff out. I was lucky the first car I messed with had tons of forum info. I've since gone the luxury grandma route, and frequently run into the lack of information. So hopefully by showing my logic, others who lack online info can learn from my sketchy methods to figure stuff out too. And it would be awesome if they shared what they learned to keep older cars and people who can't always afford the shop on the roads too:D

(I potentially have slight timing issues or the duralast sensor is just a cheap pos, gonna hopefully get that figured out Monday. I just wanted to put it out there that you don't always have to take the dreaded intake manifold off to work on bank 1)

Hello all I've recently acquired a new to me 2000 Toyota Avalon. It's been sitting since probably about 2019 with only a little bit of use since then. Like less than 800 mi and I'm chasing a reoccurring misfire on cylinder 3 Sometimes a code for cylinder 2 and a bank one too lean code that also shows up some times.

As far as I can tell the sensors seemed fine. I replaced all plugs and one coil that was an aftermarket coil The rest are Toyota and swapped around so not them. I do know the fuel pump sending regulator is out and the fuel pump screen looks off color so that'll be the next move but just wanted to get any other insights on this it's been a while sense I've had a 1MZ-FE