Timing belt replacement: Toyota Hilux 2005 (1KD-FTV, 2KD-FTV)
Step-by-step timing belt replacement for the Toyota Hilux 2005 (1KD-FTV/2KD-FTV): 47 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for TOYOTA — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 2.5, 16V, D-4D, |, 3.0
- Opens: coolant
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Renewed: washer installation sequence
Don't miss
- Always check the timing marks before timing belt removal
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Always check the timing marks before timing belt removal
- Check the timing marks
- Compress the tensioner
- Do not exceed
- Remove the cooling fan shroud
- Remove the ancillary drive belt
- Remove the fan pulley
- Turn the crankshaft to TDC for cylinder 1
- Align the timing marks
- Remove the timing belt tensioner
- Remove the timing belt idler pulley
Installation and checks
- Renew the washer
- Installation sequence:
- Fit the timing belt
- Fit the locked tensioner
- Check the timing marks
- Fit the cooling fan pulley
- Refit the ancillary drive belt
- Refit the cooling fan shroud
- Refit the coolant expansion tank
- Refit the coolant bypass hose
- Refill the cooling system
- Reconnect the battery
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Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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