At what point in km's do I have to start putting money into a toy 3L V6 engine? I hear timing belt goes at about 200 000. Are there other common problems? What about other componants? ie. balljoints. I'm going to buy a 89 or 90 runner but usually they are almost at 200 000 km by now.

thanks for any info

MM

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At what point in km's do I have to start putting money into a toy 3L V6 engine?

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Since it is after all a toy, maybe never

Ya man
toys arent like other certain vehicle brands (which i wont mention cause people cry and stuff ) But ya dude they rock you dont hafta do all that gay stuff like changing ball joints and stuff.

Ya toys rock

Mike,

I used to wheel with an 89 4Runner, with the V6 and an auto tranny.

Not enough power to get out of its own way, but aside from that it was a nice truck, not too many problems. The timing belt let go at around 220, and it was a tedious task gettin that fixed. Took me about 18 hrs in total, kuz I'd never done one before, but they're a non contact engine, so if it lets go while its runnin, no big deal, just tow it in somewheres and get it done.

The IFS is nice to wheel with if all yer building is a smaller trail truck. Mine had a 3" body lift, 2 inch blocks in the back, and I turned up the front torsion bars for an extra 2 inches. I fit 33X14X15 Boggers in there with no problems, and never rubbed anywhere. But with the V6, the welded diff and the auto tranny, there wasn't a lot of power there. And as I understand, the 5 spds aren't much peppier either.

But overall, a nice truck, and on one fatefull september night, it was the only truck out of 5 that made it down Pretty Rock unscathed.

Just my 2 cents.

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But overall, a nice truck, and on one fatefull september night, it was the only truck out of 5 that made it down Pretty Rock unscathed.

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Now that was a fun trip!

200 thou is just broken in if it has been maintained well, mines at 280 and still strong I saw many over 350 when I was lookin to buy mine.

I have a friend who works for toyota. He says that it is "recomended" to change the timing belt every 96000 kms. Which is a pretty good idea if you think about it. If that belt breaks there goes the motor. that is the shitty thing about belts. my 2 cents.

Trevor

dude are you smokin crack

blowing a timing belt wont blow your motor

or did you ignore wailers post on purpose????????

NON CONTACT ENGINE

that's a good thing to hear about toy engines are the 22r/res like that too? that's just swell before when i was looking at pathfinders, i heard that's one of the weak points of the engine... if it goes, the engine is shot. good to hear wanna explain "non contact" to me though, so i can learn my thought for the day and go play amped?

R's and RE's use a chain and if that goes you're screwed in a big way, bent valves yeeha ask me how I know.

"non contact" is known as non interference which means the valves will clear the piston at TDC when they are fully open, thats why a broken T-belt wont scrap your toy V6, cause it's a non interference engine.

so does chain = shaft and belt = ok? or is it just certain engines? that kinda sucks.

Certain engines, belt= good with proper maintainence, chain= good with good guides and quality parts. Cheapest T-chain kit on the market = garbage lol I know.

A pathfinder t-belt will screw the engine when it goes.

I just changes mine at 158K well worth the money for preventitive maintenance.