Who the hell...

[Donabed Kopoian]

... decided to put the PCV Valve UNDER THE INTAKE MANIFOLD?

On the 1ZZ-FE it was a 10 minute job!

 

[koby]

Damn, I was hoping this car would be significantly easier to do than my maxima. That car you had to take the whole upper intake manifold off to get to it.

 

[Scott O'Kashan]

A bean counter accountant.

 

[DjAnnexAlpha]

Seriously?

 

[IFMJohn]

PCV valve on a 1zz-fe is a dream job.

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[Donabed Kopoian]

Yeah, the 1ZZ-FE PCV on my Matrix was right there.

 

[rtn1911]

Video on relacement:

 

[Donabed Kopoian]

Yeah ... it's insane. That was the video I actually watched to figure out where the hell it was after 20 minutes of looking. My girl hit 30,000 miles so I wanted to get it changed out.

Tried to see if I could get to it from underneath the car, and no dice. Manifold has to be removed.

Unlike that guy though, I'll most likely unbolt the throttle body from the manifold (so I don't have to drain the coolant nor worry about flexing the lines too much).

I'm curious if Toyota increased the interval considering that it is positioned in a manner where, theoretically, it should suck up less oil and crud that will cause it to fail in the first place.

 

[rtn1911]

Yeah ... it's insane. That was the video I actually watched to figure out where the hell it was after 20 minutes of looking....

No mention of "PCV" in the manual. Let us know how you do the change and the time it takes to do it.

 

[Kev250R]

Sadly this seems to be a trend. The PCV on the V6 in my '98 Isuzu Amigo is also under the intake manifold. Mine got changed last spring when I had the heads off of it. Pretty sure it had never been changed before. I'm not planning on changing the one on my Corolla anytime soon.

Kevin