I'd like to do a timing belt replacement on both my trucks. One with 12 K and other one with 155 K. Have parts, just wondering about a play by play post with pics and / or video. I have the workshop manual, but still fear more involved than stated. Not much found in broad searches and my Japanese is a bit rusty to get through this series:
Manuals in english have been hard to find. I found one for a Daihatsu Porter, it should point you down the right path.
I'd be curious what you find. I assume you tried the Auto-Translate function on Youtube? It's not perfect but it's something. I've got about 60k on mine...but it is 18 years old! I should probably replace mine.
If you have ever changed a timing belt on any engine in the past there isn't anything super unique with these hijets. I think I took the radiator out of mine to get access to the crank bolt, but that's about it. Just be sure to line up the timing marks before you pull the belt off so you have a good idea where the crank and cam are supposed to be in relation to each other. If I remember correctly the marks on the crankshaft are hidden underneath a belt retainer so your going to have to pop that off the crank snout to find the mark.
Maybe. The Porter is a non JDM 80-series, built in Italy under license. Thus not restricted to the 660-cc limit. They typically have engines of 1-liter and up, and 4-cylinders. So, I would expect the engine portions of the manuals to be quite different. If the engine is one of the EF series, the information on the S100 series trucks would probably be fairly close. Kind of like, pretty much anything on the Chevy small block for a fifty year span could be bolted onto any other small block irrespective of the displacement or year.
