Timing belt @ 118k
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Timing belt @ 118k
figured I would show you all some pics of my timing belt at 118xxx miles. Toyota makes some great parts, but don't put it off like I did
some hours later, all finished:
some hours later, all finished:
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Damn, you got seriously lucky there man. That looks like it was gonna snap within a couple days, if that long. I'm wondering why it didn't snap yet, go play the lottery b/c you just won already.
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Everything else is in great shape though. Gonna be putting the car back to stock soon for the winter. Sucks I have to drive it through winter, but this should be the last one for this car, and then it will be pampered like my IS drag car.
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I bought a 99 LS400 last Friday with 139K and the original timing belt. Spent it's whole life in Iowa but I bought it out here in SD from the second owner. Got the timing belt service done a couple of years ago...but I was sweating driving it around those couple of days.
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Mine was WORSE than this when I bought the car. I'm sure you'd understand the feeling I got in my gut when I saw this days before making a ~2000 mile drive. Thats why I always tell people to check the tbelt before they buy one of these older LSs
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It is not just milage it is age too. It is a rubber product and cold, hot all the time deteriates the rubber quicker. Originally timing belts were (here in Canada) 6 years or 96km's (60k miles). Then all of a sudden around 2000 they changed the replacement times to 144km's (90k miles) but the belts never changed themselves still made from the same rubber etc. so it's a good thing to check now and again, at least pull off a cover and insp to see it is not like above pictures...
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I bought a 99 LS400 last Friday with 139K and the original timing belt. Spent it's whole life in Iowa but I bought it out here in SD from the second owner. Got the timing belt service done a couple of years ago...but I was sweating driving it around those couple of days.
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