How many miles does everyone have?
12-27-2012, 10:49 PM
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To remove pilot bearing: I got a 1/2" wooden dowel (if you put calipers to the dowel, you'll find that it is a little less than .500), and one of my wife's home made flour tortillas. I got the tortilla and started cramming pieces of tortilla into the bore of the pilot bearing. Then I got the dowel and a hammer and tapped the tortilla pieces into the bore, added some tortilla, tapped it in with dowel, repeat process until bearing comes out. It truly is amazing how easy it was. Once the bearing is out, all you have to do is dig the compressed tortilla wad out of the cavity and you're done! I got the idea off of UTube except these guys used sandwich bread. It's the same idea as the grease trick but it's alot cleaner. Also, be careful not to hit the dowel too hard when it bottoms out, so that you don't do any damage to stuff on the crank shaft.
12-28-2012, 05:44 AM
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1998 4Runner SR5 3.4L Auto, 208K when purchased this Spring, in Canada! That's 208000 Kilometres= 130K miles! I lucked out!
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12-28-2012, 07:00 PM
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277,500 on the '88 4runner and around 279,000 on my 1993 camry dd. 125 mile round trip commute. both still run like champs on the original engines and transmissions.
12-28-2012, 09:37 PM
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To remove pilot bearing: I got a 1/2" wooden dowel (if you put calipers to the dowel, you'll find that it is a little less than .500), and one of my wife's home made flour tortillas. I got the tortilla and started cramming pieces of tortilla into the bore of the pilot bearing. Then I got the dowel and a hammer and tapped the tortilla pieces into the bore, added some tortilla, tapped it in with dowel, repeat process until bearing comes out. It truly is amazing how easy it was. Once the bearing is out, all you have to do is dig the compressed tortilla wad out of the cavity and you're done! I got the idea off of UTube except these guys used sandwich bread. It's the same idea as the grease trick but it's alot cleaner. Also, be careful not to hit the dowel too hard when it bottoms out, so that you don't do any damage to stuff on the crank shaft.
12-28-2012, 11:04 PM
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02-04-2013, 12:48 PM
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227000 on 1987 pickup. Numbers are sagged on dash and title says 270000. I'm thinking they rolled It back to 200k when it hit 300k. Oh well. No major problems yet. (Besides head gasket and other bs) knock on wood!
