My 4Runner 2WD 1998 3RZ-FE manual transmission oil filter bracket is leaking drips overnight - but I can't find a single DIY on the net, nor in the factory shop manual for how to remove and replace it.
Have you ever R&R'd your oil filter bracket extension o-rings?
Do you know where a pictorial DIY exists?
Joe Mastroianni wrote in news:kg7qvr$ubo$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
If you're OK with spending $15, you can get 2-days worth of all-you-can- download of the straight goods from Toyota itself.
This is the same info that dealer techs have available to them.
The FSM is absolutely lousy. Do you think the techninfo is better? Do the same people write it?
Joe Mastroianni wrote in news:kg86lr$obc$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Techinfo is much better than the factory FSM, but Toyota tends to be a bit skimpy on specific details if they belive that a specific job is fairly self-explanatory.
Thats better than the Hyundai info. They will give you a set of steps and then tell you that what you just did SHOULD have been done only after you do something else !!!
IE: Telling you how to remove the radiator then mentioning that you should drain the system first!
They also like to use the Haynes method on some stuff. The factory book on my nieces Accent tells you how to remove the center controls for radio access, but they don't tell you to disconnect the heater cables or how to adjust them. (No problem if you know something about vehicles. BUT my BIL doesn't!)
But do they still continue to follow the Japanese custom of having a Japanese with less than a kindergarten level understanding of English translate their manuals to English...?
It's amusing when it isn't "technical". When it's technical trying to figure out what the f*ck they mean takes longer than the job. -----
- gpsman
"Steve W." wrote in news:kg8om2$bu0$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Toyota tells you stuff like that. What they don't tell you is what they might consider really simple, such as where exactly the windshield washer hoses run. They'll go into great detail on things like trim clips, which are easily breakable, but not on exactly how the power steering pump belt- adjustment setup works. And their diagrams tend to be sketchy.
Where the online stuff really shines is in the electrical section. Everything's clickable in the EWDs, including the connectors. You can get photographic images of exactly where each thing is located. Wonderful, and
1000% easier to use than a paper EWD.
Which may explain why, when a co-worker of mine bought an Accent and purchased the "carbon fiber" trim option, the dealership messed up the heater and A/C controls. It took them two comebacks to get it working again.
Toyota's better than that. But Honda's Techinfo is fabulous. Lots of detail, and excellent diagrams. Well worth the price.
gpsman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@r13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com:
No. The language is non-accented and excellent. And the "clankshafts" and "reak covers" are long gone.
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