AE101 front brakes and water pump + belts

[stradlater]

Hi all,

Need some advice here.

The gf's car needs new front brake pads. I've run around and it seems that $65 is the go for brake pads, so we'll get those. Question is, there's two types of caliper. the PBR caliper and a japanese caliper.

Anyone got any idea how to tell easily tell what type of capiler is on the car?

Also,

The engines makes a tiny bit of a rattle and a nice bit of belt squeel on first start up.

I think it's a water pump slowly dieing and the belts getting old. Anyone else got any other ideas on this one? That's what I think it is anyway.

If it is that, how hard is it to replace the water pump? I've been told that it's fairly hard and will cost big dollars for a mechanic to do it, so I figured I could give it a shot myself (Hell, I've done enough on the 1G) but i'd need some form of heads up.

Anyone got any info, or maybe even a service manual on how to do this?

Thanks all.

[stradlater]

Bump. Surely someone has some info?

[c2888]

Go to toyota and buy the pads, i paid $66 for some celica st162 ones recently. NO dust, and superb braking, just like it was meant to be. I dunno if toyota parts can differentiate just by chassis numbers tho.

i know that the imported ae101s are sprinters, and only a handful of those were ever sold, at +35k it's a wonder they sold at all. and these would be the cars that have aisin calipers, or whatever japanese company was supplying brakes at the time.

Pbr should have been on all the local cars, but i can only assume that, because toyota does weird things, like change calipers. Its called the customer frustration department

Take a wheel off, the pbr calipers have pbr cast into them, and the jap ones would have a triple triangle stamped on them.

Change the belt, you might be lucky and the noises will disappear, or you could do it proper and do water pump, timing belt, etc while you are in there and it's in bits.

goodluck
Dan

[stradlater]

Any idea on how to change the water pump and so forth? given the prick of a position it's in?

[Grega]

strad, normally take the drivers side wheel off and the surrounding guards and attack it from there....it might just be the cam belt tensioner which needs adjustment/replacing. maybe speak with toby from meridian? i remember him building a motor a while back that had this problem...

[stradlater]

Hrm, I might do.

But it's just a stock standard motor, that's done it's 100k's so it's probably just something worn.

[bobob]

try having a read of this... see if it helps

http://www.rollamods.com/waterpump.htm

[stradlater]

Thanks mate, that was really helpful!

[Grega]

yes indeed. +rep

[bobob]

thanks

its a great page, rollamods is quite clever with toyotas, thanks to him for writing it up!!