Toyota Timing Belt Replacement for 3.4L V6 5VZ-FE (4runner, Tacoma, Tundra & T100)

Hey My 1st Gen Tacoma Brothers,

My buddy Sean and I finally did a timing belt job. This job got pushed back several times but we're stoked to finally publish this video. It's a long video but I think you'll find it very informative and will hopefully help you do your own timing belt job when the time comes.

So, grab a couple beers and a bucket of popcorn and enjoy some Toyota Time with Timmy the Toolman and Sean. Enjoy the Show!

**Please read the video description because I recently learned two optional techniques to get the timing belt on easier and I added them to the video description. Getting the belt on was a pain in the ass so a technique that would make the job easier is definitely worth exploring.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vHC46ypHxWc

 

Stranger Things Season 2 got put on hold for this.

 

Guys, make sure you read the video description. I added a couple suggested techniques to getting the timing belt on easier that I just learned.

 

Lol this is the one video that came out after I already did something. Pro tip - don't put the belt on backwards.

 

I could see how putting the belt on backwards could cause some issues. This was my first timing belt job and I learned a lot. When I do the timing belt on my rig sometime next year, I'm definitely going to try backing off the two timing belt tensioner bolts a couple turns to make getting the belt onto the last pulley easier. That was a pretty tough battle getting that belt on. Any tricks to make that easier is definitely welcome.

 

Yeah, you hit all the key items that I had gone through. Go tim.

 

Awesome video. When I did mine it slipped right on, in the video it looks like you're hydrolic tensioner might not be all the way retracted or the pulley isn't pushed all the way against it.

 

Putting the belt on backwards puts one of the marks one tooth off. It's easy to think that something else is the matter until a good reference comes up like this

 

Toyota Timing Belt Replacement (PART 2) for 3.4L V6 5VZ-FE

Part 2 to this job came about because Sean and I had to investigate a noise that surfaced 2 weeks after we finished his Timing Belt Replacement. To say the least, we weren't excited that we had to tear apart the front of his engine again but the good thing is we are now able to show you some things we didn't show in Part 1.

The Big One we're able to show you is an easier way to getting the timing belt on. In Part 1 we fought the belt and ended up using a plastic tire iron to lever the belt up onto the #1 idler pulley. In this video, we use the technique of backing off the tensioner bolts a little to make it much easier to slip the belt on. It worked great!

We also show you how you'd compress your tensioner in a vice so you can reuse it, a final way to confirm your timing belt is on correctly and share some advice when dealing with the aluminum oil pump body when pulling parts off and putting them back on.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mErd7xoBS9I