First gen 1998 Toyota RAV4 SXA11 ★ 5-speed, AWD/4WD, odometer: 104k in July, 2020 ★ Follow the #rav413 hashtag on Instagram

Work I’ve Done

ENGINE & DRIVETRAIN

★ Aisen timing belt & pulley kit. I followed this excellent long and thorough walk-through
★ New water pump, water neck, & thermostat
★ Swapped out dirty power steering fluid with a turkey baster (hat tip Scotty).
★ New NGK wires and Denso PK20TR11 spark plugs
★ Oil change, filter, air filter & PCV valve
★ Swapped out transmission gear box oil
★ New exhaust & muffler

SUSPENSION & STEERING

★ New control arms, bushings, and rear brackets
★ New sway bar links
★ Cleaned up sway bar (grind, primer, paint)
★ New sway bar bushings
★ Replaced ripped steering boot on one side and rescued twisted up one on the other
★ New tie rod ends
★ New rear differential mount
★ New rear shocks and poly spring mounts

BRAKES & WHEELS

★ Front: C-Tek rotors and Akebono brake pads. I cleaned up the calipers, then they failed and got replaced.
★ Rear: Cleaned up the rear drums. They seemed fine.
★ Blacked out the stock alloy rims with truck bed liner
★ Falken Wildpeak A/T3w Trails. Went a touch bigger than stock (235/70R16). They rub a little at full lock

HOT LOOKS ETC

★ Hellas on goofy homemade brackets
★ ‘SportRack Semi-Custom Roof Rack for Naked Roofs’ (eTrailer)
★ Harbor Freight roof basket
★ Removed rear badges
★ Trailer hitch mount
★ Cargo area: removed seats and made some storage boxes for the footwells

Measurements

Possibly handy for RAV4 owners a-googling their first generation 5-door SXA11 or SXA16 Toyota RAV4.