1MZ V6 Timing Belt

[Quattrovalvole]

Hello to everyone

My name is Henry and I am from Costa Rica.

I just bought recently a 1997 Toyota Camry V6. I really like this car since my father had a secong gen Camry.

I want to change the timing belt and i wanted to know if someone has the diagram and what parts would you recommend to change with the belt. By the way this is not an interruption engine. Right?

I need to order all the replacements parts from the US since here isn't a common car.

I am familiar with Toyota since I had a 1987 Tercel a few years a go, but it is always good to know what you can recommend.

My mechanic is really slow so I want to take to him all the parts, because he needs an entire life to order them.

I will appreciate all your comments.

Thanks

[Eye8Pussies]

lol...I like your english expressions....especially about your mechanic...haha...

bot more on topic...yes, the engine is a non-interference engine, so if your timing belt breaks, you'll still be fine. just stranded.

as for the diagram on how to change them, your best bet is to pick up a haynes manual- it'll tell your mechanic everything that he will need to know, since he will know the rest that is engine specific.

for parts, you can try rockauto.com

but shipping is going to be expensive no matter where you get your parts from I think

[Quattrovalvole]

Hi Eye 8

What can I say, lol..... it takes forever to him to order parts.

Have you ever done this job? Which parts you replaced?

Thanks for the adress I am looking it......

[Kevin89AllTrac]

Originally Posted by Quattrovalvole

What can I say, lol..... it takes forever to him to order parts.

Have you ever done this job? Which parts you replaced?

Quattrovalvole, I did mine TB last year, replacing these parts:

• water pump, Aisin f/AutohauzAZ: $80
• timing belt, Mitsuboshi f/AutohauzAZ: $31
• drive belts, Bando, f/AutohauzAZ: $20
• spark plugs, NGK laser iridium f/Autozone: $48
• antifreeze, Zerex G-05 f/Autozone: $22
• coolant bypass hose, local Toy dealer: $11

I used mostly AutohauzAZ (http://www.autohausaz.com/) because they had the best price, including shipping, for OEM parts. My car had only 75K miles on it at the time so I didn't replace the cam & crank seals, or the tensioners. I replaced the bypass hose and sparkplugs at the same time, but if you're just doing the belt/waterpump, no need for those parts.

Good luck!

[Kevin89AllTrac]

Forgot to add: The Autozone website has excellent DIY pic's/instructions for 1MZ timing belt replacement. Better than the Toyota manual in many cases, IMHO. Take a look.

http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us...rInfoPages.htm

http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us...rInfoPages.htm

Nothing for your '97, but I don't think it's too different from a '96.

[Eye8Pussies]

^ ah, those were the ones that I was trying to find, but I only kept coming up with partsource's stuff
and all the 1mzfe's are identical when it comes to timing belt change

as for parts:

- timing belt
- power steering belt
- camshaft seal
- crankshaft seal x2
- new idler pulley
- new tensioner pulley
- new tensioner (optional)
- water pump + gasket


then, if you want to, the sparkplugs, thermostat, rad hoses, etc.

the coolant in the block will have to be drained anyway, so it wouldn't be a bad time to do the thermostat

[Strum]

Originally Posted by Eye8Pussies

bot more on topic...yes, the engine is a non-interference engine, so if your timing belt breaks, you'll still be fine. just stranded.

What exactly is that? Nothing elaborate and how do you find out if you have that type of engine?

[modian]

An interference engine's valves will open to where their lowest point in travel is below the piston's highest point of travel. Should the valve be stuck open there and the piston continued moving it would came up to smack the valve. Bad things will happen. As long as the valves are in correct time and continue to move in synchronicity with the pistons they will never collide. When the timing belt breaks the valves stop moving while the piston continues to move as the crank spins. One or more valves are bound to be encroaching on the pistons' travel.

A non-interference engine's valves and pistons never move into the other's
range of travel. A broken timing belt causes no damage to the hard parts.

Someone else will need to chime in with where to find reference info on what engines are and are not interference types.

[Lumberg]

Yo vivi en San Jose por unos anos. Hay un manual en PDF format que puedes encontrar en capitulos por este sitio.

[Quattrovalvole]

Thanks everybody for the comments you made my life lot easier.

[Quattrovalvole]

Originally Posted by Lumberg

Yo vivi en San Jose por unos anos. Hay un manual en PDF format que puedes encontrar en capitulos por este sitio.

Hola.

Gracias por la respuesta ¿Hace cuánto viviste por acá?

[Lumberg]

Originally Posted by Quattrovalvole

Hola.

Gracias por la respuesta ¿Hace cuánto viviste por acá?

Hace como quince anos, mas o menos.