My retired and low-income pops needs the belt done on his '01 Tundra asap. It's at almost 300,000km's on the original belt. I look at the engine bay and want to slit my wrists with the blunt edge of a spoon. Is there anything I need to know before taking this on, or is it reasonably straight forward?
I did one on a 1999, which is a similar engine without the VVT. Not a terrible job in that case. I don't remember a lot of specifics, which tells me it wasn't bad.
When I was selling the truck, the only thing anyone wanted to know is when the belt had been changed.
I did a 1UZFE in a 99 LS400 and it wasn't that bad, actually. The "trick" is to take the tensioner, put it in the shop press, compress it, stick a drill bit in the hole to hold it together, bolt it back on the motor, pull the drill bit. The shop manual is VERY helpful.
Dr. Hess wrote: I did a 1UZFE in a 99 LS400 and it wasn't that bad, actually. The "trick" is to take the tensioner, put it in the shop press, compress it VERY SLOWLY, stick a drill bit in the hole to hold it together, bolt it back on the motor, pull the drill bit. The shop manual is VERY helpful.
Just a little addition.
It wasn't that bad.
I bought a Timing Belt Kit by Continental, which came with "Made in Japan" parts. It came with the whole works: belt, cam seals, new idlers, new tensioner and water pump. I was very impressed by the quality of the kit.
Not sure how much time it took. Maybe 8 hours taking my time? Allegedly the book time is 3.7, according to the kit instructions.
All apart:
Old water pump ~just~ showing some evidence of weeping:
New vs Old goodies:
Thank fully my wife is not one of those "What's this for?" (whilst pulling the pin) kind of girls:
Anyways, it runs and doesn't leak. And I didn't have to slit both my wrists.
Looks like i was too late. 
I was going to say to replace the engine fan pulley/bearing thing as they all seem to go to crap at some point and you had to take it off anyway..
This guy?
I fondled that bearing really thoroughly. It spun very smoothly, so I gambled. I'll add to this thread when it goes just to see how badly I gambled.
That's the one. Here's hoping, right?
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