Six Minute Timing Belt Job: 1993 Lexus SC300 (2JZ-GE, non-VVT-i)

The timing belt, water pump, camshaft seals, crankshaft seal, timing belt tensioner, idler pulley and thermostat were replaced (new) on a 1993 Lexus SC300 (2JZ-GE, non-VVT-i). The actual job took 4 hours, which included bleeding the cooling system. Continued below...

Important Installation Notes:
1. The cam shaft pulley removal and installation techniques shown in this video DO NOT APPLY for cars that have the VVT-i interference engines. Doing so can run the risk of damaging valves.

2. Not shown in video-Water pump removal: In addition to removing six front bolts of the pump, you also need to remove two small nuts on the rear of the pump that connect to the water bypass pipe.

3. Thread locker adhesive (Loctite #242) is required to be applied on the idler pulley bolt prior to installation.

4. Shown briefly in the video, a general purpose grease is required to be applied on the inner and outer lip of both the cam shaft and crank shaft seals before installing.

5. Using a timing gun to test the ignition timing (not to be mistaken with cam timing) is NOT REQUIRED after performing a timing belt job as shown in this video. (This was done because the distributor was tampered with prior to this job).

Specialty Tools Used in the Video:

1 Cam Shaft Seal driving tool: 1 1/4" PVC Schedule 40 coupling
2. Crank Shaft Seal driving tool: 1 1/2" PVC Schedule 40 coupling
3. Pulley Holder: made by Performance Tool #W89208
4. Seal Puller: made by Lisle #58430

Other Useful info:
Thread Pitch of the Bolts(2) Used for Pulley Removal Tool:
1. Timing Pulley/ Cog : M6-1.00
2. Crankshaft Pulley: M8-1.25

Sources:
Torque Specs Information shown in the video were taken from an Official Toyota Factory Service Manual /Technical Information System: Toyota; https://techinfo.toyota.com