1GR-FE 4.0 V6 engine parts from Dubai: pumps, gaskets and chains

The 1GR-FE is Toyota's 4.0 litre V6, 3,956 cc with a 94 mm bore and a 95 mm stroke, laid out for pickups and four-wheel-drive wagons that carry the engine lengthways. Wikipedia describes a 60 degree design with double overhead cams, four valves a cylinder and a timing chain. Toyota's own 2009 announcement of the redesigned Land Cruiser Prado names the 1GR-FE as the 4.0 litre V6 beside the 2TR-FE 2.7 litre four. Toyota UAE's 2026 Hilux page still offers those two sizes, a 2.7 litre four and a 4.0 litre six, without printing the codes.

Two versions matter when you order. The first engine used VVT-i on the intake camshafts only, and the updated engine added the same control on the exhaust side as Dual VVT-i, so a VVT parts list for one is not a list for the other. Wikipedia dates the vehicles and not the engine, which is why the table follows the trucks. Use it to place a vehicle, then let the engine code settle the order.

Kuwait's 2025 ranking of new vehicles put the Land Cruiser first with a 7.3% share, the Prado second and the Nissan Patrol third, according to BestSellingCarsBlog, with Toyota taking 29.2% of the brand ranking. Saudi Arabia's 2025 ranking gave Toyota 28.6% and placed the Hilux fourth among models. These are sales rankings and the sources do not split them by engine, so they show where Prado, Land Cruiser and Hilux owners are numerous, not how many carry the V6.

In Iraq the Hilux topped the 2024 ranking, ending ten years of Kia Frontier leadership, and Toyota took 29.3% of 161,404 new vehicles. The Ministry of Planning counted 8,287,604 registered vehicles at the end of 2024, growing by about 200,000 imports a year. Buyers there are price-led: a garage owner in Erbil told Iraq Oil Report in 2019 that cheaper local parts go for half the price of new, so a new-part quote is weighed against that.

Angola's own 2023 import records show the UAE and China level at the top of declared suppliers of other vehicle parts, each with USD 4.50 million of 19.46 million, ahead of Portugal's 4.04 million. Expansão reported in October 2022 that China had overtaken the traditional vehicle suppliers, Dubai among them. Our reading is that the older Toyota trucks, the ones that carry this V6, are the stock that keeps needing parts there.

Because the 1GR-FE is a V6, a trade list counts in pairs. Two cylinder heads mean two head gaskets and two valve cover gaskets for each engine, so a list for twenty engines asks for forty of each. The chain-driven layout means there is no timing belt interval: the wear parts are the chains, tensioners, guides and sprockets, together with the VVT-i parts that ride on the cams.

Around those sit the lines that every engine overhaul list repeats: a ring set, main and rod bearings, an oil pump, a full gasket set, a thermostat and six spark plugs, one for each cylinder. We quote them as one list with each line's grade named, and we say when a set is one maker's kit rather than loose parts. We do not supply complete engines or short blocks, only the parts that go into your own.

We read Toyota number 16100-39456, described on the page as a water pump assembly, on one Deira counter's price list on 3 November 2026, with 5% VAT included. Toyota's own part started at AED 397.35 across four offers. NPW's T171 started at AED 214.37 and GMB's at AED 228.82. GMB is a Japanese water-pump maker, and we grade both makers as quality aftermarket. Their pumps cost about 54 and 58 percent of genuine, so genuine runs at roughly 1.7 to 1.9 times the aftermarket price.

OE-brand sits between the two in our grading, but no OE-brand offer such as Aisin was listed that day, so we have no measured middle rung for this pump and we quote the grade that exists for each line. On a list of 24 pumps, the gap between genuine and the two aftermarket makers at those counter prices comes to roughly AED 4,000 to 4,400. That is arithmetic on a retail listing, not a quote, and the pump we quote may sit above or below it.

A price far under the aftermarket floor deserves a question. A Ghanaian trade blog, The High Street Business, wrote on 17 May 2026 that some fakes are nearly identical to the original and fool experienced dealers, and its example was a counterfeit Toyota water pump. Al-Futtaim, Toyota's UAE distributor, reported seizing about AED 7.46 million of fake parts in 2024. For a genuine lot, ask which distributor's invoice covers it.

Steering side does not change what is inside the engine. A Prado from Kuwait and a Hilux from Kenya carry the same engine family, and a gasket or a chain is quoted from the engine code and the part number, not from the side the driver sits on. What can change is the engine's revision: the original and the Dual VVT-i update differ at the cams, and Wikipedia notes that the 2015 Hilux got a different intake with resonators in the new intake pipe.

The same V6 sits in trucks sold as Prado, Hilux, FJ Cruiser, 4Runner and Fortuner, and Toyota's bodies and accessory layouts differ between them. Parts hung on the engine, such as brackets, hoses and sensors, are quoted by number only and checked against the VIN. A buyer in Baghdad and a buyer in Luanda can share one list if both read the same code, but not if one truck is a 2008 Prado and the other a 2016 one.

Start with the engine code from the plate, then the VIN or chassis number, which on a Prado reads something like GRJ150 followed by a serial. If you cannot tell which VVT-i version you have, give the build year, because the Prado, FJ Cruiser, 4Runner and Land Cruiser 200 changed at different points between 2009 and 2012. Photograph the old pump's casting number and any label on it before it leaves the truck.

Then write quantities by line: pumps, head gaskets in pairs, chain sets, plug sets of six. A person replies on WhatsApp with each line priced, its grade and brand named and a note where a line matches only part of the engine's range. How to pay is confirmed in that chat. A one-line request for a 1GR pump gets questions back, while a list for fifteen engines gets a quote.

Compare the number on the box with the number you asked for; for the pump that is 16100-39456 or the maker's own cross-reference. The page we read prints no fitment against that number, so a listing alone does not prove the pump fits your engine, and the engine code and VIN do. Ask which brand it is, because the same number came in three brands at three prices.

Be wary of the word genuine on its own. A budget brake pad listing read the same day described itself as genuine quality while priced at less than a fifth of the genuine pad. Ask for the brand, the number and a photograph, and expect all three to match the grade you were quoted.