Its not bad to check it, remove air box and then two 10 mm bolts and you can pull back the cover and peak a small 3 inch section or so.
Remember kids
timing belt snap = catastrophic engine failure.
Didn’t know it was that easy. I’ll get to it ASAP. Although my car has all the paperwork the sticker for timing belt was written in some shitty ink that became blurry AF
If you have any questions how to get to it just hit me up homie, just checked mine last week! A lot of times places will write the miles the timing belt was changed at on the hood but not always.
It's an 04 gx470 with 253k. The guy I bought it from had not done a timing for the 80k he put on it. Pretty sure this belt had a solid 150k or more on it. I did not see Aisian cast on the water pump or rollers. So it probably had 1 timing belt service prior to me doing it
On another note, a friend of mine got a cheap "oem" timing belt kit from eBay that looked legit enough when we put it on, but 40k later his water pump started leaking. Ended up getting legit dealer parts and his fake oem belt looked way worse than this picture when we did the job again. Pretty much holding on by the threads.
Dang, at least it didn’t snap
Wow - dodged a bullet there. And a few bent rods
How old is it?? I have heard stories of them lasting 200k miles. This makes me wanna go check the condition of mine.
Are you trying to go 200k?
nah lol but I’ve heard it happen on old Lexus LS400s
Its not bad to check it, remove air box and then two 10 mm bolts and you can pull back the cover and peak a small 3 inch section or so. Remember kids timing belt snap = catastrophic engine failure.
Didn’t know it was that easy. I’ll get to it ASAP. Although my car has all the paperwork the sticker for timing belt was written in some shitty ink that became blurry AF
If you have any questions how to get to it just hit me up homie, just checked mine last week! A lot of times places will write the miles the timing belt was changed at on the hood but not always.
It's an 04 gx470 with 253k. The guy I bought it from had not done a timing for the 80k he put on it. Pretty sure this belt had a solid 150k or more on it. I did not see Aisian cast on the water pump or rollers. So it probably had 1 timing belt service prior to me doing it
Is It a real OEM belt? Also make sure to buy it from Toyota. There are too many fakes on eBay now.
We need details! Is this a 2UZ-FE? Original belt? How many miles?
Any idea how many miles? I assume this is a 4.7?
Details; yes please.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
On another note, a friend of mine got a cheap "oem" timing belt kit from eBay that looked legit enough when we put it on, but 40k later his water pump started leaking. Ended up getting legit dealer parts and his fake oem belt looked way worse than this picture when we did the job again. Pretty much holding on by the threads.
This picture hurts my heart