Zooguy
SILVER Star
Hello my name is Troy,
Just drove from OKC to Amarillo and picked up my first Toyota. I needed something a little bit bigger than my extended cab pickup because I have a 14 month old daughter and we just found out baby number 2 is on the way so I needed more room in the back. Its a 1999 Landcruiser with only 153,500 miles and a factory rear locker!! Came with some tundra rock warrior wheels. The previous owner didn't do the best maintenance practices.
My wife's father is a service writer at a Toyota dealership so I took it in to them to have them do an inspection.
The timing belt had never been changed so I had them put a new one on along with a water pump and a new idler pulley that was squeaking really bad.
I figured if they'd never change the timing belt there's probably other things they had neglected so I went and bought eight spark plugs and whenever I pulled the old ones out seven of them have the letter P stamped on to the end of the spark plug indicating that they were original spark plugs.
So it's probably safe to assume the transmission has never been flushed or had the fluid changed.
I don't have very much experience with import vehicles but I'm very well-versed with GM stuff.
The old saying goes if you miss the fluid change interval on your automatic transmission that you should never change it and just keep running it because if you do change it the transmission will begin slipping ...
sooo what should i do? should I just leave it alone? Should I drain the pan and replace the fluid or should I do a full transmission flush?
Just drove from OKC to Amarillo and picked up my first Toyota. I needed something a little bit bigger than my extended cab pickup because I have a 14 month old daughter and we just found out baby number 2 is on the way so I needed more room in the back. Its a 1999 Landcruiser with only 153,500 miles and a factory rear locker!! Came with some tundra rock warrior wheels. The previous owner didn't do the best maintenance practices.
My wife's father is a service writer at a Toyota dealership so I took it in to them to have them do an inspection.
The timing belt had never been changed so I had them put a new one on along with a water pump and a new idler pulley that was squeaking really bad.
I figured if they'd never change the timing belt there's probably other things they had neglected so I went and bought eight spark plugs and whenever I pulled the old ones out seven of them have the letter P stamped on to the end of the spark plug indicating that they were original spark plugs.
So it's probably safe to assume the transmission has never been flushed or had the fluid changed.
I don't have very much experience with import vehicles but I'm very well-versed with GM stuff.
The old saying goes if you miss the fluid change interval on your automatic transmission that you should never change it and just keep running it because if you do change it the transmission will begin slipping ...
sooo what should i do? should I just leave it alone? Should I drain the pan and replace the fluid or should I do a full transmission flush?