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Originally Posted by 5horizonsrr
Hi everyone,
I'm almost done with my TB and WP job on my (new to me) 2001 with auto tranny, thanks to an aircabin man kit and @mbtim 's amazing videos. The truck is effectively back together, but I have a few questions and thoughts I can use your inputs on before filling things up and opening fire. Can anyone let me know thoughts on the following?
1- Preferred coolant? (semi-related: I'm doing a new radiator and hoses while I'm at it)
2- I'm doing a transmission service (well, drain and fill). I drained the ATF completely from the pan as well as the 2 lines that go to the bottom of the radiator. Any other way to get more out? And what is the preferred ATF to put in/run?
3- Valve cover gaskets: I think mine are leaking, and while I'm doing seemingly everything else I am debating replacing them, but a search of threads lead me to believe this is a second pretty big job on its own. Is there any advantage to doing it now, or can I wait for a later date/next oil change/after monitoring more now that I've cleaned the area up?
4- My biggest concern: I drained the oil to change that while I'm at it since the truck is new to me. I had a look before refilling, it looks a little scary in there. (pic attached) any magical cleaners I can run? I did not fill it with oil yet in case there are good ideas...
Thanks in advance! Assuming the motor doesn't grenade of leak from the water pump when I start it, this weekend project has been a blast.
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1. Use Toyota or Toyota specific coolant (they sell the red/pink Toyota specific stuff at orielly/autozone etc)
2. There is a way to do it, I can’t remember specifically. If it were me I’d just replace how much you drained out and then maybe in another 5-15k miles do another drain/refill. Any dex 3 or above should work, I generally use Toyota fluids from eBay as it’s the cheapest I’ve found. You can kind of tell when the fluid is happy/unhappy from the dipstick.
3. Valve cover gaskets are way easier than a timing belt job in my opinion. But yea as stated above pretty much no time saved for doing it at the same time as timing belt.
4. I’m currently doing some seafoam treatment, project farm has some good videos showing it working. They have one you spray in the intake and the other you can pour into the crankcase/fuel tank. I just did the crankcase and the oil came out super dark like it removed some of the varnish. I did it right before my oil change.
one other thing I’ll mention to take a look at if you haven’t already is the power steering pump. I usually find this is one of the most neglected things on these trucks and the fluid is super dark. Should be red just like the trans fluid (you use trans fluid in the power steering)
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