Rob Cowell
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After the Thursday timing kit and service I will be polishing it,any thoughts on that?
You've seen mine, what do you think my thoughts are on polish?
After the Thursday timing kit and service I will be polishing it,any thoughts on that?
You've seen mine, what do you think my thoughts are on polish?
Good to hear Simon helped out so well and great piece of mind to know the injector washer/oil strainer recall was done
So Simon also sells the oils ? I never thought to ask him about the oils
Vik, any local garage should be able to do this. Don't understand why a mobile guy can't other than not knowing what is involved. There is a write up here for a Forerunner but it's the same procedure on a 120.
http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-g...r-case-output-shaft-oil-seals-how-diyers.html
Just to prove those are good instructions I followed them this morning and did my front seal. I would add; get the car lifted a bit. A set of Halfords ramps would be great. I did it all without lifting the car and there's not really enough room to swing a hammer to unstake the nut. Make the little unstaking tool in the instructions; I've lent my grinder to a neighbour who is out today. It was a pain with a small screwdriver - not really strong enough. The stake nut came off easily with a breaker bar, I'd seen warnings about how hard that is, it was the easiest bit for me. I couldn't hand press the new seal in, I used a 47mm socket and tapped on that, again I needed more room to swing the hammer.
Right guys,
Apologies for the delay, but the seal has been done and new Hyp 90 has been added. Driven around a couple of 100 miles since and all is well.
Is there anyway to check the grease in the prop, they said they did it, but how do you check?
Hard to see grease really, depending on how well they cleaned off any old grease that was pushed out of the joint. If it looks like someone has wiped around the nipples then hopefully they did the job, and had the gun angled so it actually put grease in the joint.
To check the front joint on the front prop you'd have to take the bash plate off and by the time you've gone to that trouble you might as well just pump some grease into it yourself. Get a grease gun with a flexi hose. Plenty around for under £15. And if you do do it yourself you can pump away into the UJs (I do it until I see clean grease being forced out of the joints), but just give the nipples on the shaft itself one or two pumps or you'll fill the shaft with compacted grease and stop it sliding.