You sold it, Highmiles? That car was pristine.....I still dream about the pictures of his leather seats. They were flawless.

 

Chuck, there really isn't any way to "adjust" the valves per se. You check the clearance at each valve and then replace the shims with oversized ones to bring all the valve clearances into spec. The power steering pumps on the Lexus were notorious for wearing out and often having catastrophic failure. The earlier V8 engines had the pump located directly above the alternator. When the p/s pump failed and leaked p/s fluid it went right into the alternator and shorted it out too. Owners were often hit with a double whammy of replacing both at the same time. That design flaw has thankfully been rectified in the more recent engines.

 

i got 81000 miles.. it runs fine and i just had an 80k mile service done

i was just wondering on average how many miles i could expect out of it... i heard it was around 160k or so

 

if my memory is correct highmiles just did regular maintenance and got 300k+ on his ride; that alone explains why the 2jz is called "bullet proof"

 

His car was a 400 tho....

 

I don't recall any Valve adjustments unless they were done as a standard practice on one of the 90K servces. The only thing done to my steering wheel was lube. Seems it would on occasion squeak but not motor ( I assume you mean pump) or anything like that was ever replaced.

 

oh...well the v8 is just a tank

 

imho the v8 and the i6 are both just as strong. the ge engine is one of the strongest engine ever built, and it will really last forever

 

well shiii...i bought my gs300 with 237,000 on the meter....but i did an engine and transmission swap (40,000)