4 Hours to change belts??
 

:jessica: Now being it was the second time I changed there belts 2000 Tacoma 3.4 5 speed. This all started because I had a leaky oil fill cap and was putting a new one on and saw the alternator belt about to break.

I think 4 hours was not to bad considering it was June and very hot.

Now in the 20,000 miles since I changed the belts all the tensioners were seized fast nothing would loosen even though all the holding nuts came loose not like I forgot to loosen them.

Much Kroil later and some taping with the hammer got things off . The Ac belt and Alternator belt went on just fine.

The power steering belt after a half hour I discovered I had been given one 10 mm shorter . Wow10 mm was enough to not be able to get it on. Just the luck of the draw.

I am waiting the first good frost.:jessica:

wow 4 hrs ya no maybe a hour tops but sounds like yours was all rusted and being a pita soo ya 4hr's

Very hot he says. :hillbill:

:wabbit2:

...on a super hot day it would have taken 8 hours. j/k

It's not how long that it took to get it done that is important, but that you got it done successfully.

No comments from the rust belt yet, so I guess I have to chime in, Doesn't surprise me one bit with the pulley issues.

Where did you get the belts from? I've seen that before at Autozone, I am sure it happens many more places too. People come in buy a pricey belt, and then buy a cheapo belt swap them in the package and "return the pricey belt".

Do them all when you do your timing belt and put anti-seize on your adjusters and you will never have this problem, even in the rust belt. I did my first set at 120K with the TB and have 30K on the second (OEM). The OEM belts last a long time if they don't get coolant or oil on them.

Thank God for Kroil.

I bought the belts from my local autoparts vendor.

I had them on the shelf since I did the first set.

I just put the old power steering belt back on for now..

Yes Wabbit it is hot for me it must of been all of 75 degrees F

I am much more comfortable on a nice 20 degree day to me that is sweat shirt weather.

Another new set of Belts ordered from Toyota. plus the extra one.

I am to the point I hate doing this kind of work I would rather Fabricate Hitches Winch mounts and bumpers and repair Frames any day.:welder:

Heh... I tend toward the other extreme. I had a fan belt break while driving home last winter. Outside temp -15F and 15mph wind. I was able to replace the belts on my truck in 25 minutes (5 mins outside, 5 mins in the wife's truck warming my hands alternating).

Then again I'm not in the rust belt.

Seriously though, 4 hours because of rusted stuck fasteners... That sounds like a royal PITA.

On about hour 3 I hear myself talking while gritting my teeth, saying something like: "why won't you just turn you stinking thing?" or "I freaking hate this, I should have been done two hours ago." I think that AC pulley tensioner was fabricated by a criminal mastermind. It looks so easy, but it always takes forever to let go.

The belts on these can be a bear. I found it almost impossible to tighten the tensioner back up on the power steering belt the first time around.