francismiz

I've been looking all over and have found A LOT of conflicting information but these cars have been around long enough that people should have a pretty good idea of what is the best timing belt service kit? The car has 200,000 miles on it and i'm not sure if or when it was serviced last but i had the local lexus dealer go over it and they said it needs timing belt and water pump. This is going to be my daily driver so i want to do it right the first time. Thanks for all your help guys!

tuner79

Don't know about a kit. But if you're going to have this done I'd recommmend changing the front main seal while you're there. It would also be good to have the timing belt tensioner checked as well.

guardrail9

Oem is probably the best for stock application but expensive. Gates makes good kits with belt, and tensioner pulley, waterpump is up to you but I always go oem on my cars and definitely check the tensioner


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TBender

gates timing belt


other then that for all the other components, stick to Japanese products...

Jooee

I'd just stick with all oem parts most of the timing components are cheap. The water pump might be a little pricey but worth it

TBender

you can get an aisin water pump on rock auto for about 100 bucks...


the gates kit is 50 bucks for the belt and pulley, a beck arnley hydraulic tensioner that shows NTN cast on it is 40 bucks... ebay has things even cheaper

so there you have it, all oem parts/the real manufactuerer/ or something that IMHO is better, I'd rather have a gates belt then a mitsuboshi, which some Toyota's use from the factory.

It would be interesting to compare those to lexus dealer pricing... I can also probably get most of this stuff cheaper through vendors I have at work, so you have all kinds of options if you know the right people.

seriously those parts are the same thing you would get from lexus, it would just be in a lexus bag or box.....

LXtiming

I recently had a timing belt break on my 2001 Lx470 WITH 174,000 miles. I had changed the belt at 100,000 miles, so this second belt only lasted a little over 74,000. Everything I read on the internet, led me to believe that because the 4.7 litre engine is an "interference" engine, it would be toast, i.e., bent valves, holes in pistons, etc. This is not necessarily true. I had the vehicle towed to my mechanic, he put a new timing belt on, and it started right up. He installed the timing belt kit (water pump, pulleys, seals, etc.) and it is running great. In fact, it is running better than ever! There is no way to actually "inspect" a timing belt for wear. The rule of thumb is to replace as preventive maintenance every 80-100K miles. But, as stated above, mine went out at just under 75K miles. I know I was extremely lucky that there was absolutely no engine damage. But, don't believe those who say that a timing belt failure will absolutely result in engine damage. It is possible that no damage at all will result. Don't give up. If your timing belt fails, there is still hope. Personal experience and not "hearsay."

guardrail9

whoever says its guaranteed engine damage is wrong. Most people just dont want to pay a autoshop to do a t-belt just to figure out if your good or paying for nothing...