1997-2000 Toyota Tacoma TRD's 3.4-liter V6 Supercharger Kit Installation Instructions

Removal Procedure A. Preparation for Removal of Stock Intake Manifold • Before you and engine compartment.thatyou don’t, grease clean begin, TRD recommends you thoroughly If on parts could become dislodged during the procedure and fall into the engine. • Make sure the engine has cooled fully before you begin. • To help you later, we you disconnect anything. You can doengine’s suggest you draw diagrams of your cable routing before for the vacuum hoses; however, some of the vacuum connections on your stock manifold may not be the same as those on the supercharger. To ensure the proper hose connections, refer to the diagrams in the back of this manual. • Thestock nuts and bolts.kitTherefore, as you remove them, keep TRD supercharger has been designed to reuse most of them with their components or label them for location. This will assure a faster, easier installation.
B. Removal of Stock Intake Manifold (figure 1) 1. Disconnect the battery ground cable. 2. With tape or a permanent marker, mark the forward edge of the power steering and the air conditioning compressor drive belts (figure 2). This will ensure that the belts will be returned to their original positions and that they will rotate in the same direction. If you reverse the direction of rotation, it may cause the belts to fray. 3. If you don’t have a drive belt tensionometer, make note of each belt’s deflection at a point midway between its pulleys. You will need to approximate this tension during reassembly (see figure 29).

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