3.4L timing belt

is a PITA....Had gotten all the parts and was going to install it with a guy I work with tomorrow at my place. Plans changed, and we installed it tonight at work. A little over 3 hours and theres a new timing belt,water pump,and thermostat in my truck. Glad thats finally over. Getting parts at damn near cost, and $90 to put it in still put me at saving well over 5-600 at having a dealer do it

 

So just imagine how bad other vehicles timing belts are, the 3.4 is one of the easiest timing belts to do

 

Any pics for a write up? I need to replace mine very soon.

 

no pics, unfourtinately. Its pretty easy to do, just very VERY detailed.

 

Did you use the little snapon tool to compress the idler pulley? That thing would have helped a lot when my dad and I did mine. We had to unbolt the AC compressor and drop it down a few inches to remove the bracket holding the idler on so we could compress it in the vice. That part alone took about 2 hours lol.

 

I need to do this at some point.. it would have been awesome if you had pics..

 

This is all I used when we did mine.
http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/maintenance/timing_belt/

 

any ideas when is a recommended milage to do a timing belt change on a 3.4 thanks

 

90k miles

 

uh oh haha now i know why my truck sucks ass right now

 

mine went 156k on the original. the water pump was leaking pretty bad when I changed it.

 

im almost to 130k and my temp guage is runnin a little hotter then normal

 

Well you could check the coolant level first. But you should definitely start planning a weekend to swap everything out.

 

The manual says every 60,000 miles.

 

yeah i checked that its fine. could coolant become to old?
def gunna start savin for this fix

 

It could start clogging things up if you leave it too long. That might be whats happening.

 

yeah i dont think ive ever got it flush out. should i do that?

 

well if your going to be doing the t belt/water pump soon anyway I would just wait.

 

Going to do this for sure looks farely easy. Hope it goes well. The toyota dealership told me that my water pump is bad and leaking but they also said toyota made them so they would seal them selves up for the most part. But i see the pink gunk and im going to have to change it. So i'll try and post pictures

 

I have a stupid question about taking off the crank pulley. if you still have the timing belt on couldn't you get a 1/2" impact gun on the bolt to get it out. With out having to use special tools and stuff??