Major repair coming up, Am I ready?

[wadle5]

The timing belt kit I installed this last weekend on my Runner was from Rockauto and included pretty much everything you need. Timing belt, water pump, pulleys, tensioner, and gaskets. I bought the serp belt from them too, see order below. I bought from the dealer the thermostat, thermostat gasket ($5...what a rip), and 2 gallons of coolant. You will need rtv for the water pump/ thermostat connection.

Some people say the pulleys and tensioner will last 200k. Okay... what if they don't? You saved 10 bucks now to take the engine apart again when/if they go bad before the next belt.

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Step back from the ledge my friend. :jump:

My truck is a 2004 with 127,500k on it and my belt looked new, so did my pulleys. If your truck is younger, and obviously has less miles, I would be confident to say yours will look the same. Yes, the belts can stretch and you cannot verify a belt being good by looks...

I changed all the things I listed in my previous post. No cam seals or crank seals as mine looked good./QUOTE]

No serious experience of taking apart the motor, besides throttle body cleaning. I difficult time consuming is this job?

 

[shahsmerdis]

Step back from the ledge my friend. :jump:

My truck is a 2004 with 127,500k on it and my belt looked new, so did my pulleys. If your truck is younger, and obviously has less miles, I would be confident to say yours will look the same. Yes, the belts can stretch and you cannot verify a belt being good by looks...

I changed all the things I listed in my previous post. No cam seals or crank seals as mine looked good. If your mechanic friend has any experience he should know what needs replacing and what doesn't by looking when he/she gets in there. I understand you want to be prepared and have everything they will need, but I would play the odds of what commonly needs to be replaced.

There is an old saying I coined over the years... "If it ain't broke... don't fix it." :yo:

Speaking of that... Why are you replacing the wheel studs?

Changing out the wheel studs because 2 already broke, and 1 of them was stripped. local mechanic crosstreaded the studs when he put back on the wheel. it is freaking annoying after spending the whole day working on the car and realizing a wheel stud broke. I assume the rest are compromised. I did find two of the lug nuts that were stripped, so it could have been them that was causing them to snap...

Step back from the ledge my friend. :jump:

My truck is a 2004 with 127,500k on it and my belt looked new, so did my pulleys. If your truck is younger, and obviously has less miles, I would be confident to say yours will look the same. Yes, the belts can stretch and you cannot verify a belt being good by looks...

I can't find the pully's on amazon prime, so Ill have him order it locally if he he says it needs to be changed...

I changed all the things I listed in my previous post. No cam seals or crank seals as mine looked good./QUOTE]

No serious experience of taking apart the motor, besides throttle body cleaning. I difficult time consuming is this job?

Okay ill leave the crank seals alone. I wish the pully's weren't so expensive by OEM part number!

 

[blind squirrel]

No serious experience of taking apart the motor, besides throttle body cleaning. I difficult time consuming is this job?

Dude, you changed your suspension out on your own rig right? You got this. There is not much degree of difficulty, just paying attention where you take bolts from and where they get put back. There is a 3 part video on youtube that walks you through step by step on a 02 Tundra that is pretty good. It will give you an idea of what you are up against.

There are some tricks/ short cuts that are good to know...like if your impact wont get the crank bolt off..like mine didn't. You can bump the starter with a breaker bar wedged and she comes right off. It is tightened at 181 ft lbs at the factory, so its really on there.

The length of time it takes to do it is a little intimidating, that and if you screw it up your engine could be ruined....:violin: It took me 6.5 hours to do mine start to finish.

 

[nevada]

The timing belt kit I installed this last weekend on my Runner was from Rockauto and included pretty much everything you need. Timing belt, water pump, pulleys, tensioner, and gaskets. I bought the serp belt from them too, see order below. I bought from the dealer the thermostat, thermostat gasket ($5...what a rip), and 2 gallons of coolant. You will need rtv for the water pump/ thermostat connection.

Some people say the pulleys and tensioner will last 200k. Okay... what if they don't? You saved 10 bucks now to take the engine apart again when/if they go bad before the next belt.

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I got mine from rock auto also, but im pretty sure it came with a Tstat.

yes, I agree about the tensioner and pulleys. that is a ton of work to go back in there and replace them later. worse, its expensive engine damage if they simply fail, and allow the belt to slip...

No serious experience of taking apart the motor, besides throttle body cleaning. I difficult time consuming is this job?

ive done quite a few TB's on various different engines over the years. this wasn't the hardest by any stretch, but I would not call it easy either. there are a lot of pieces/parts to pull off the engine. assuming you can keep track of those, it shouldn't be too difficult.

 

[shahsmerdis]

Hey guys,

timing belt ordered! Missing the gasket, but hopefully he can order that from the local toyota dealership. Ill leave the rest to him.

Looking up all the grease points, and various threads. Came across this for the 4th gen.

http://www.toyota-4runner.org/maintenance-detailing/28414-07-v8-4x4-zerk-fitting-pics.html

Is there a summary of which type to choose? OR just whatever they have there? I see pages and pages of which is more right. Is there a summary of what people pick?

suspension wise what else should they check? is there anything they should retorque? besides that thread, are there any other grease points? I'm going to do the steering stops and hope that takes away one of the noises I have.

thanks guys

 

[fullboogie]

I'm a huge fan of bag and tag the first time you do a job. Get a box of quart freezer bags and a sharpie before you do the job. As you pull things off and remove bolts, small brackets, etc., bag them and write on the bag where they go. Put the bags in a larger box back to front, so when it's time to reassemble you have a pretty good idea of the order in which things were removed.

 

[shahsmerdis]

Wow! Lubercating that drive shaft got rid of all the noise!

New timing belt and spark plugs WOw weee!! Power!!!!!!!!!

All new fluids new routers pads calipers . Car is back to new.... !

found I have a lot of bad rust.

More details coming soon. cant wait to pick up the car tomorrow there were a few more issues they had to address.

 

[shahsmerdis]

Hey all,

So We spent about 2300 yesterday, but got a crap ton of things done.

pretty much he charged 380 bucks for the timing belt, water pump etc. I bought OEM parts at lowest price possible so really didn't go wrong there. If I went with the kit it would have been a 600 dollar total timing belt fix( that would have been awesome!) . but oh well, I went safe. Btw I'm glad I did the tentioner, as I was paying one of his previous customers came in saying she heard a noise coming from under the hood, 10 min later, mechanic came out saying tentioner was giving up! He asked her if they did the timing belt recently with them, without any estimation he said he would not charge her labor, just cost of the replacement part. Wow honest !

190 bucks for all the rear calipers brakes (5th gen) and rotors and parking brake, rotrs including wheel studs.

475 labor for front CV axle repair, new boots etc. New wheel studs rotors and brake pads. one new caliper. (labor)

no charge for 90k tune up. (just parts)

essentially free labor or part of the overall cost to change every fluid in the car.

he fixed the door check in the car, installed new battery. the under guard of the car wasn't installed right by the other mechanic, so he bent it into place. There was a bunch of other little things. and greasing up the drive shaft etc.

pretty much addressed everything in this post and then some for about 1200 labor. couldn't be more happy! the attention to detail, was awesome. I feel like I have a new car!

undercoating, patching up a rust ding, and full detail remain!

I kinda annoyed him at first because I never dealt with a competent mechanic, (you gotta be on top of mechanics here in NYC) .. So lesson learned. Once I realized he knew what he was doing, I backed off and let him take care of the car! I learnt so much on this job.

I can't tell you how smooth the brakes were after replacing all the calipers, brand new brake system!

Just wanted to thank everyone here for helping me out