Supercharger removal question

[quicksilvr]

Hey guys, I had a knock sensor go bad, and decided it was time to go ahead and tune up everything on the truck, since at 220k miles it's due for some love. So I started tearing it down to do timing belt, WP, valve cover gaskets, and obviously replace both knock sensor and the sensor wiring harness. I don't have a service manual or anything, just doing it by common sense since I'm pretty handy with a wrench.

However: I'm having a brain fart that is keeping me from getting the supercharger off.....there is a bolt or fastener that I'm missing. Besides the obvious 4 (two bolts and two nuts on studs) and the bolt with the spacer that attaches to the bracket on the driver side, where else is it bolted down? I have all the hoses, throttle body, and small misc stuff off already. Surely there aren't bolts underneath the blower...how the heck could you get to them?

Thanks for helping me not be dumb.

 

[awpsome]

Just did my knock sensors not to long ago, seemed like it was going to be bit** job but it actually wasnt that bad.

sounds like your missing the money bolt, the big long single bolt just to the driver side of the 6 tubes going down.
not sure if you installed your own SC but there is that one long big bolt that goes down the middle.

hard to explain without a photo.. let me see if i can find out.

 

[awpsome]

quick question you got the black 2nd gen sc right?

edit just seen your sig.

I attached an image with red circles of where my memory serves me that there are bolts holding it down.

 

[quicksilvr]

Yep, black supercharger. And I didn't install the blower, bought the rig with it. I haven't removed any big bolt, so that must be it.

 

[awpsome]

Yep, black supercharger. And I didn't install the blower, bought the rig with it. I haven't removed any big bolt, so that must be it.

i think the big bolt your missing the one right in the middle to the left of the TRD logo

by the way, just as a tip since i did this as well, im sure you know to do this. but before taking off the lower intake plenum to get to the knock sensors. make you drain your coolant.
or you'll have coolant in your valves/heads. no bueno.

also i have seen others not replacing the lower intake plenum gaskets when they get down there but i chose to do so since i wasnt planning to take it apart again. Its an important gasket in my opinion as it keeps the coolant separate from the air going down the intake. To me, thats not a risk i am willing to take since im already there.
i suggest replacing those as i got to mines at about 150k miles and they were brittle that when i took the plenum off they started to deteriorate.

 

[quicksilvr]

Hahahaha, i really did laugh out loud when I walked out to the garage and looked. Thanks dude.

 

[quicksilvr]

Thanks, I will replace all the gaskets that are removed. Do it right the first time.

Coolant is all out...I'm about ready to change the water pump right now too. my timing belt looked like the Sahara desert. Pretty cracked. It MAY be original. No sticker and no physical receipt ever saying it was done. I'll post a picture of it tomorrow.

 

[awpsome]

Hahahaha, i really did laugh out loud when I walked out to the garage and looked. Thanks dude.

LOL no worries! Sometimes the best hiding spot is in plain sight.
Classic, either way glad you got it figured out.

Thanks, I will replace all the gaskets that are removed. Do it right the first time.

Coolant is all out...I'm about ready to change the water pump right now too. my timing belt looked like the Sahara desert. Pretty cracked. It MAY be original. No sticker and no physical receipt ever saying it was done. I'll post a picture of it tomorrow.

Nice, shit 216k out of an original t belt?
not bad. HAHA

yea if you need any other help or whatever let me know, its sort of fresh in my mind. Did this same job beginning of this year.
Did you order all your parts already? or is the truck planning to stay apart for a little bit?

I got my sensors and gaskets off rockauto and the knock sensor harness on ebay.

By the way, take a close look at your lower plenum and heads and report back with however much oil build up you got in there. It was from this job for me that pushed me to get a catch can.. i took my time cleaning it up as much as i could with it all apart.

 

[quicksilvr]

LOL no worries! Sometimes the best hiding spot is in plain sight.
Classic, either way glad you got it figured out.



Nice, shit 216k out of an original t belt?
not bad. HAHA

yea if you need any other help or whatever let me know, its sort of fresh in my mind. Did this same job beginning of this year.
Did you order all your parts already? or is the truck planning to stay apart for a little bit?

I got my sensors and gaskets off rockauto and the knock sensor harness on ebay.

By the way, take a close look at your lower plenum and heads and report back with however much oil build up you got in there. It was from this job for me that pushed me to get a catch can.. i took my time cleaning it up as much as i could with it all apart.

I'm going to have it apart for a while. I can "borrow" the 400hp turbo neon my dad and I built, to drive while I work on the 4runner. I'm most likely going to order the timing belt kit from aircabinman on eBay, and get the OEM sensors and OEM harness. Unless I'm convinced the aftermarket sensors will last 200k miles like the originals.

I'd actually already planned to do a catch can setup while I have it apart. I installed an AGP can on the turbo car, and it works really well at keeping oil out of the intake. Granted for that car, it's a bigger deal, since I run stand alone fuel and spark engine management and I really don't want any excess oil in the air fuel mixture.

I think I'm going to have the valve covers powder coated while they are off. Pretty excited to get it all done and back together.

 

[allwheeldrive]

Just an FYI, grab a t-belt/water pump kit from Rock Auto. You can get the OEM parts all in one kit for under 200 bucks. Tensioner,pullies, everything. All the OEM manufacturers. I did it with mine when I bought it, and its money. :thumb:

 

[quicksilvr]

Just an FYI, grab a t-belt/water pump kit from Rock Auto. You can get the OEM parts all in one kit for under 200 bucks. Tensioner,pullies, everything. All the OEM manufacturers. I did it with mine when I bought it, and its money. :thumb:

Yep, i checked that out, thanks. Looks like a great kit. Some of the more expensive kits on eBay come with belts too, which is why they are higher. I'm probably going to get a timing belt/valve cover combo kit of eBay from mizumoauto. I haven't decided for sure yet.


Supercharger is off, and now I'm just trying to carefully get those plastic wiring harness holders out of the way. And I need to make a crank pulley removal tool.

I have a nose cone service kit from Toyota, that includes the phenolic drive adapter. So I'm going to do that service while it's off.