Make a long story short, my bracket that holds the idler pully (that bolts to the head) has always had a small bend (pushed in) on one side needless to say I have been eating pully bearings for some time.
Last time I used a tractor farm supply bearing and pressed the new one in.....only lasted a year.
2 weeks ago my bearing was about ready to fly out and take my rad. out,only thing that saved it was the snap-in clip. I drive it daily so I had to find one NOW.
Some of you know I work at Autozone so I had the time to go into the back, sit down and find something that would work.
Duralast part #231039 works, biggest diffrence that its about 1 inch smaller in diameter but the inner diameter works perfect along with the v-belt diameter. The smaller pulley isnt a problem for most, just adjust it out.
Catch is you need to grap some washers from behind the counter to help space it from the block with conjunction of using the spacer/disk that oem (Toyota) uses.....other than that in a pinch it works fine.
Yes its not as good as Toyota but.
About the trail Gear power steering pump. Its never lined up perferctly, not sure why but it hasnt, so that hasnt helped my idler bearing. Solution was the bracket from the idler to the power steering needed shimed....easy enough, seperate the bracket from the idler to the power steering pump bracket and slide in 2 washers between the 2......lines right up. I have never heard of any complaints on my problem but just in case here is your problem.
Thats it in a nutshell....cheers
Last time I used a tractor farm supply bearing and pressed the new one in.....only lasted a year.
2 weeks ago my bearing was about ready to fly out and take my rad. out,only thing that saved it was the snap-in clip. I drive it daily so I had to find one NOW.
Some of you know I work at Autozone so I had the time to go into the back, sit down and find something that would work.
Duralast part #231039 works, biggest diffrence that its about 1 inch smaller in diameter but the inner diameter works perfect along with the v-belt diameter. The smaller pulley isnt a problem for most, just adjust it out.
Catch is you need to grap some washers from behind the counter to help space it from the block with conjunction of using the spacer/disk that oem (Toyota) uses.....other than that in a pinch it works fine.
Yes its not as good as Toyota but.
About the trail Gear power steering pump. Its never lined up perferctly, not sure why but it hasnt, so that hasnt helped my idler bearing. Solution was the bracket from the idler to the power steering needed shimed....easy enough, seperate the bracket from the idler to the power steering pump bracket and slide in 2 washers between the 2......lines right up. I have never heard of any complaints on my problem but just in case here is your problem.
Thats it in a nutshell....cheers
