1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

At the time I got ready to do the timing belt, the Schley tool was unavailable from a reseller or even the Schley company. It was back ordered for some unspecified amount of time.

So I said fuck it, and used the

$89 OTC 4754 Universal Pulley Holder Wrench with Interchangeable pins, black

OTC 4754 for both camshaft gears and the crankshaft. I already had a 3/4 drive 300lb torque wrench from Nissan projects. There are two (next to the largest size) pins that can be buffed down to exactly fit the holes on in the crankshaft pulley. Those are the shiny pins the middle of the row. Don't try using smaller pins as they won't have a precision fit.






I don't recall spending much over $70 for any new tools required for the job. It just depends on the amount of money you want to throw at it.

I like this guy's video review of the OTC 4754 tool. My working style is closer to the guy in this video. He published a series about replacing 5VZFE heads and cam shafts.

https://youtu.be/j_TfAACwJac


Also, if you are replacing valve cover gaskets at the same time as the front cam seals and the rear full moons, no special seal press tools are required. It uses the same procedure for the resealing the front and rear caps that fit over the full moons and seals.

 

When it’s cold out my damn power steering screams man. Aggravating

 

Loose belt. I have one on another car that needs to be tightened. It does the same thing.

 

We need to get together again lol was fun hanging out with you.

I'll teach you how to drive it if I'm available lol

what did you buy

 

Coke

 

Idk Amazon was dealing drugs

 

LMAO, according to this douchebag over on the toyota-4runner forums, 285s aren't 33s and never will be considered so.

 

They’re just the hub

 

Damn, my 10.50s are lil bitches

 

2 inches doesn't matter as long as she (truck) loves you for who you are.

 

Agree, get a piece of heavy cardboard and tape against the radiator to protect it.

 

I guess the Tacomas are all going to be Hecho en Mexico in late 2021. Hmmm
https://www.motor1.com/news/393859/toyota-tacoma-production-moving-mexico/

 

Better Mexico than China.

 

People are freaking weird. Thank goodness in person people don't act like that near as much. Could you imagine actually trying to talk something through with a mentality like that???

 

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too true

 

This doesn't bug me as much as the fact that almost all the Yota cars and unibody SUVs are going to be built on a shared platform.....I forget the name of the chassis or whatever. It'll prolly be fine. It helps Toyota standardize their manufacturing process but yeah I dunno.
I didn't like them moving production to USA from Japan, but that went relatively fine. The move to Mexico production would concern me if it was GMC heading up the process. With Toyoda doing it, I'm sure the quality will be same or very similar to one's made here. Toyota manufacturing does well because of the process they implement, not as much as the location of facility.

 

Looks at Jay*

 

Yea there's only a few. There's a whole bunch of cool people down in TN and KY I'll go wheeling with from on here. Sucks because that's an 8hr one way drive.

Trying to move out of here but the wardens boot keeps kicking me back over the fence as I try to escape. Was REAAAAALY close last week but that fell through, and I got offered a shit job in a shit part of CA (that's all of it because of the people that live there ) that I turned it down.