03 taco 3.4 timing belt installation help

That's something you try after you've done quite a few and can do it blind.

You have the tensioner re cocked?

 

You can, you're not doing yourself any favors though with the balancer and accy. belts still there.

You're going to need some spatial imagination to get that in time.

 

You'll want to pull the radiator and stuff. Especially for a first time doing it, you have to have that room to see and think and stuff. Do you have everything pulled yet? If you don't feel like pulling the radiator then it prolly is best to go to a shop. Wish I was out there man we'd knock it out. You're already half way there

 

at 8:00 or so in the video.

You can not get the timing belt back on with the hydraulic tensioner all the way tight. It HAS to come out and re-cocked in a vise or by a strong hand.

Hear ya on the cold. A buddy of mine who was up there working outside Pitts. already came back saying "F that job for 6 mths."

 

I admit it's harder than an old Ford.......but easier than a new one.

 

Nope ,gave up frustrated as hell 3days ,i dont care if it ever sees the road again, all this for a water pump ,wtf[/QUOTE]
sorry, I know it's not funny, I just laugh thinking about how frustrating that crap is when it's not going right! It's not laughing at you but with you. I've had far more of those scenarios than I could count. but thankfully haven't had to tow it anywhere.
Sucks bad hombre....

 

I don't know what's worse, NE in winter or SW in summer.

 

NE = north east in this reference?
but the winters in my state do get brutal as all heck sometimes

 

Yea I think of PA as Northeast.

Anyway, this thread reinforces the idea that a waterpump job is a timing belt/water pump job, you just don't do one w/o the other.

 

Absolutely correct. I could not for the life of me understand why the critter wasnt doing the T-belt since he was in there. And then in a post of his he mentioned just needing to do the water pump cause it was leaking.
Tacocritter forgot to do his homework on the repair before diving into it. Happens. It sucks, but happens

 

That's what I did..put that dam top idler on last....it works...

 

It actually will all be tight consider it’s pulling down the belt on both left and right cams which are also pulling up from the crank. If it didn’t work too many people would have issues with timing. I actually came across doing it this way while I was trying to get the belt on all the other ways besides removing the belt tensioner.

 

How many people have used the Schley (SCH97300) Toyota Timing Belt Tensioner Compressor to re-pin the tensioner before removal?




Since I couldn't find the Schley crankshaft tool, I bought one of these

$95 OTC 4754 Universal Pulley Holder Wrench with Interchangeable pins, black

OTC 4754 multi-purpose pulley holding tools.

Though initially, the holding pins were either too large for the crankshaft pulley holes or too small to hold it under high torque.

So I decided to take the next to largest side pin and use my grinder to buff down off a small amount of metal so those would fit tightly inside the two holes on the crankshaft pulley.

Well, that worked swimmingly.

Here's a picture of the tool.



Picture of the pins with a slight buffing around the outer edge to fit inside the crankshaft holes.



Picture using the tool with my 3/4" drive HF torque wrench that I purchased almost 10 years ago for other engine projects. Click.


The OTC 4754 tool worked for the crankshaft and the camshaft pulleys.



I think the guy in the video is a member on here.

https://youtu.be/j_TfAACwJac