Recent content by ggreyrunner

Last year when I was looking for replacement options I checked NAPA's heavy duty ones. When I pulled up the warranty, it was a Cardone warranty. It looks like that is not the case anymore. I ended up buying the Cardone's off of Amazon. They have been on a little over a year, no off roading and...

Sorry for the delay, haven't been on here for a while. No, the code has not come back yet. I had a Check engine light and the garage pulled the code and told me that it was the VVT solenoid. The motor ran fine, so I would not have known other than the CEL. Still keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks, That was pretty much free. Made it out of scrap materials except for the pins. I no longer have a need for it, so hopefully someone can get some use out of it.

This is for a 3.4 L V6. Not sure if it will fit other motor sizes. The holder is home made, drilled out on a CNC mill. I used it to do a timing belt change on a 96 T100 and a 2000 4Runner Made from the plans on this thread: Homemade Crank Pulley Tool | Tacoma World $30; If it needs to be...

If you check the warranty page on the NAPA website, I'm pretty sure that a Cardone warranty comes up. I just got my Cardones from Rock Auto. I am planning on doing the install Labor day weekend. The only thing negative that I can say about RO is that their shipping department needs to work on...

Thank You for all of the great information. I have a feeling the error code will eventually come back again. Plan on keeping it another ten years. If so, i will let you know.

Mobile1 then and still using it with Toyota oil filters. Less than 70,000 miles on it when the code occurred.

The Code was a P0022 Camshaft Position A Tiiming Over Retarded. They also performed a camshaft timing control valve test. No faults were detected when they did this.

I can't remember what the code was. I will have to check my invoice to see what they documented. Thanks for the info. and diagram, very helpful.

I was researching this last year trying to determine where the VVT valve is located on the the V6. Is it at the same location as the V8? I had a CEL come on while I was on a trip last year. It eventually cleared before we got home. I had the code checked during the vehicle inspection. The shop...

Research Fluid Film, there should be several threads on the subject. You may not want to even do all of the other steps if you use FF.

This link will show you the undercoaters in your area Fluid Film Undercoating Locations I just bought three spray cans and did my truck before it got cold out. Will probably have to wait to do the runner next year. I can't say how much it would cost to have someone else do it. It should hold...

I had a real nice scratch form in mine, deep enough that you could catch your fingernail in. Took it to my local stealership to have it checked since it had a certified warranty. They determined the previous owner had the rear wiper iced over and then they tried to turn it on. Since the blade...

Mine would do it after work also, so your symptoms are different than mine. I even bought new plugs hoping that is all that it was. I never got to put the plugs in. I let the shop do it during the repair.

I have a T100 with the same motor. Mine was doing the same thing for about a month until it started blowing white smoke. I turns out the head gasket was leaking just enough into the cylinder to make it run rough until the coolant burned off. The leak finally got bad enough to start smoking. My...