Re: 2003 4 Runner V8 engine questions

Thanks for the info Steve, I have a few thousand miles to go before my first oil change, want to be prepared, what are the odds I will need a new oil filter wrench cap, good since every new car I have purchased cannot use any of the old filter wrench caps...lol

Thanks Tim! I better stick with the scheduled timing belt change then.

Don't even bother with cap-type filter wrenches, there are too many variations in the knurls on the end of the filter cans. If you have

Just go get one of the belly-band style wrenches that fits any normal sized filter. I have the one that takes a standard 3/8" extension and breaker bar instead of a fixed handle, so with enough extensions you can get it in almost anywhere.

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I wonder why Toyota hasn't done away with timing belt on the IForce. Most of today engines are using chain, especially those variable valve timing. Dodge was the first went back to chain since the Intrepid (if I recall correctly, and they invented a noise canceling chain technology)

Timing belt is the technology of the 80 and early 90. My 95 Nissan van uses belt and it needs replacement at 105K miles.

Granted that replacing belt on the iForce engine isn't that hard. But that should be a chain by now.

I tried changing it on my Tundra without taking off the skid plate. What a gawdafull mess.

Now I just take it off.

GC