[Part 1/8] How To Rebuild Your Toyota Engine, Echo, Yaris, Scion XA, XB [1NZFE ]

In this video, we go over the teardown process for the 1NZ-FE engine found in the Toyota Echo, Yaris, Scion XB and XA. This is down to the block for complete overhaul. In the next video we will go over parts prep and machine shop services prior to reassembly.
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[@someguyintexas1053]

Can't possibly thank you enough. Our 02 Echo with 300k miles needs a lil work... we have all the books but SEEING it happen "live" means the world. 🙂

[@pravito_keys]

The most reliable 1.5L engine

[@E85_STI]

It is and I have a 2005 Scion xb as a spare car and these motors don’t burn oil

[@slyfox4564]

I have an 07. 200k miles. Doesn't burn any. I've seen some with 250 and 300k that don't burn much if any

[@kruiseorbruise]

@@E85_STIdo you floor it ever or beat on it??

[@krisentiahoess6898]

Mine have been running 250k km. And these km doesn't mean easy traffic. Jammed 've been parts of everyday run. Compression of each cylinders around 180-188 psi. It means everything is good. No burned oils. Changed vbelt twice, starter motor carbon once. Still can do 26-30 mpg on half jammed traffic. Most reliable engine.

[@PedroFerrer-vq5sw]

It only burns oil at high mileage. My dad’s Yaris is 505K and it started burning oil around 501K. It’s still getting him to work and back without issue. So I’ll be doing a rebuild when I got the time.

[@nateturner2992]

I hope you are able to post the engine removal and re-installation process. I’m hoping to help a friend with this in the coming months. Thank you for posting.

[@mister-amazing]

I have an 07 yaris I bought new in 06, 200k miles. Still running perfectly not burning oil. Can't wait for the next video YARIS 4 LIFE

[@mitch9521]

These are such great engines. Very easy to work on too

[@rayamaro9963]

Very thoroughly explained, and done . I don't think that anyone could have explained it any better. Looking forward to watching you doing the reassemble on the next video. 👍🌞💖

[@angtastic8696]

Incredible work! Great editing!

[@connorlearmonth665]

Super helpful video thank you. Looking forward to the reassembly video

[@drtrip980]

Great video definitely gonna be looking at others step by step walks you through the whole process awesome keep it up

[@lannynavitka8949]

Great video. I'll be watching for the next one, and watching this one a hundred times by then 👍

[@jimmyfavereau]

Love my 1NZ-FE. Thanks for the vid. Time to binge watch 🙏

[@nidaldajani728]

I think you have a very good methodology. Thank you for sharing it with us. I am encouraged to watch the rest of your videos on this overhaul.

[@TheStuffMade]

Excellent work and instructional video 👍

[@brady2809]

great video buddy hope to see some more videos of this i'm about to do this proccess asap i have the engine sitting on the ground

[@betavirus11]

best video i've seen breaking this engine down. thank you. about to hit 300k on mine.

[@LOLAAUM]

Excellent video!

[@nasirredwan5017]

i am very happy because of watching this, i am mechanical engineer working as mechanic so it is important to me ,but i need OBD II scanner latest

[@mikem5475]

Great video, thanks

[@zonaakaji1030]

Awesome, just gotta wait for the follow up videos. I want to def know about the machine shop process, and costs too

[@RobsReviews]

thank you! Iv never seen it out of the car. Cool to see some of the things I am always wondering about and cant get a full view.

[@hussienabukhalil2012]

Beautiful and organised work. Thank you very much for the lovely vedio . You have a new subscriber 🎉

[@TonyMontana-xf8fr]

I have waiti waitimg so long on the videos.

[@SimonTrent8000]

never would have found that bolt under the oil filter location. neat that the oil galley right from the oil pump passes threw the same aluminum area as the coolant, this is a neat design choice because the oil and coolant will warm up together. my guess is to get the oil up to temp faster.

[@jersonxb81]

I quess all the box lover are happy now we know much more about the interior of are boxes im happy my self ,thank u so much for this tutorial

[@TonyMontana-xf8fr]

The 1nzfe engine is found in many reliable toyota cars From 2000s. Toyota allion, premio, echo, yaris, allex, runx, ist amd many more. Mine is over 200k and it still runs smooth.

[@ZoeyR86]

Lol, I just did this same rebuild for my xb, BUT I went with a fueltech 550 and 13:1 compression upgrade rods pistons cams and springs keyed the timing sprocket to the crank and had it balanced. New redline is 8500 for now, but springs are good for 9500. The xb with the 5sp + lsd + echo 3.96 final ratio vs xb 4.31 ratio. And 4x the stock power on tap while getting much better fuel economy on the freeway also got it blue plated by California highway patrol so carb legal but that was a battle. Yes it has a massive 3in x 18in long Cat 🐈 under it with dual o2 sensors and a custom exhaust 4-2-1 manifold with a full 3in system (I have added cutouts since getting it inspected lawls) I have a very quiet exhaust can't tell its running and the entire car has 2 layers of 90mil sound deadening. The engine bay has a full custom harness and a full wire tuck smoothed firewall. All the A/c lines are custom and relocate the parts into the fenders. Also, custom ITB's I'm was a machinist before I was an engineer. I enjoy machining and part design, so I have a full cnc shop at home.

[@mikem5475]

4x the stock power?

[@ZoeyR86]

@@mikem5475 296whp

[@mikem5475]

@@ZoeyR86 That;s very very very impressive. I can't believe you haven't shared that with the world. You must be an expert and people would love a video of your build. Are you on yarisworld? How can I find your stuff?

[@sadakelumsameerakelum2858]

Nice video .. thank you bro😊

[@kevinmccullough3811]

Great video dude!!!! Looking forward to next videos on rebuild. I too have a yaris 2007 with same motor at 218k miles currently. As a daily commuter it's been best car I have owned my only complaint its ugly 😂. Also going to swap from auto to manual thus I bought cheap donnar car that was wrecked but darn motor still ran with only 105k. Watching this video makes me want to rebuild my high mileage motor instead of just swapping out.

[@enivaldonunes5929]

Great video…

[@Lucky.Dice.Garage]

Miso is so pretty🥰🥺 awww

[@EtchGames]

About to start building a 03 echo I'm just gonna use this video as a guide for the teardown lol I'm hoping to make a modest 300hp

[@khodayehrangekaman315]

O' brother I 💖 love your 🐈 helper

[@user-bn5wt8qr6u]

شغل واضح وممتاز

[@jersonxb81]

Bóxer lover ,blessing

[@user-fc3wq2ue3l]

Good ❤

[@SirCookSir]

nice

[@chasyoung5516]

Thank you for the video! Do you know if I can pull an engine from 2000 toyota echo A/T. without removing transmission. I know service manual says motor and transaxle pulled together. Only about 1.5 inches between water pump pulley and unibody. Not sure if there is enough room to clear engine from tranny before raising motor. Would be a lot easier if transaxle can stay in car. Thanks again for video, learned so much.

[@galkawarrior]

Find a 1NZ-FXE out of a Prius C, and pull the piston and rods. It’ll bump your compression to 13.4:1

[@jamessouthworth1699]

I'm preparing to do the same engine because the cost of a complete remanufactured engine is astronomical right now. Please share what exactly what the machine shop had to do to the bottom end, the cost, and the turn-around time. Are you going to have the machine shop do the head too?...or recondition that yourself? THANK YOU.

[@Cat53278]

I am glad someone is messing around with these motors. What are your plans with it?

[@LujinCustom]

If you want to put more pep in your Echo’s step? You can do a couple of things at this stage. But you’d have to run premium fuel going forward and you would have to buy a piggyback timing module to tweak stock ignition timing.

[@MakeItMike]

They make that for the Echo??

[@LujinCustom]

@@MakeItMike No and yes. Stock pistons for 1NZFXE are high compression. Then they put a performance cam in the intake position and retarded timing to reduce compression. So the stock 1NZFXE is a performance 1NZFE with bad timing. 🤣 Piggyback modules are wired in between sensors and the ecu to lie to the ecu and convince it that incoming values are different from the truth. There’s a bunch of brands and price ranges and features. So basically you buy the pistons and TWO intake cams for the 1NZFXE. But your preferred timing calibrator (piggyback). On the intake side, you will advance the timing marks by 1 tooth before installing the chain. The second intake cam obviously goes on the exhaust side with the stock sprocket. Now I don’t remember if you advance or retard the timing mark, but it’s about 11 teeth. Then you just set your timing calibrator to retard the cam signal by 20 degrees.

[@EtchGames]

I'm going to repin and make an adapter for the echo to go to gredy emanagement for boost by gear and what not

[@scionnn]

@@MakeItMike They make that for the 2004-2006 Scion xB and Scion xA, Toyota Echo, Yaris, Vios and Vitz. But i have a question about the timing chain and pistons and crankshaft, if misaligned, what happens? How do you align it?

[@MakeItMike]

@@scionnn the 1nzfe is not a valve friendly engine so if your timing is off then the pistons can hit the valves and destroy itself.

[@khodayehrangekaman315]

Hello friend May I please ask you : how much should I torque the : intake cam & exhust cam bolts & crank shaft bolt please . Thank you for your response .

[@flyonbyya]

Any progress on the machine shop findings?

[@user-fl8om7yb3l]

Dear friend , could you please let me know such aluminium cast blocks be resleeved so that standard pistons to be used ?

[@flyonbyya]

What criteria did you employ to choose the spark plug selection?

[@kadaaek9894]

ممكن تفيدنا بارتفاع الكيلاس او راس محرك المكينة قبل ما يتم خرطها لاول مرة شكرا

[@SuperRamon77777]

Do you have a video on taking engines out?

[@TonyMontana-xf8fr]

Finally found a video that i can relate to. Pls do the complete overhaul. Ill follow along.

[@toegyi5606]

Bit socket for cylinder head bolt (M9)is same as fielder 2005 ?...

[@nickforder8202]

When is the rebuild It's now April looking forward to seeing the rebuild

[@OmarAli-iw5ow]

I have toyota corolla 2003 (2NZ-FE),,, when the short block is damaged, I brought (1NZ-FE) with the old ECU If I want to change all sensors, did I have to change the ECU also ?

[@SubZeroSpecialists]

Mike, where did you get the instructions for the rebuild. I’m going to rebuild my 1NRFE Scion IQ engine. BTW, excellent job on the rebuild, thanks for take no the time.

[@MakeItMike]

It was from multiple sources. I couldn't find one solid resource for all the info I put in these videos so that's why I made these episodes as a one stop video series with everything you need. Some info came from Alldata from machine shops, some from Haynes, some from spec manuals from Europe etc.

[@SubZeroSpecialists]

@@MakeItMike okay thanks for the feedback. Great job👍

[@miguelsantana6319]

Hi there, is this anything like a complete rebuild kit that I can order and then follow your video step by step to rebuild my exa t same engine? Thanks in advance. Great video by the way.

[@MakeItMike]

I don't know about a full kit that's not a Chinese one. Normally there's things you don't order until after the machine shop because you don't know what size bearings or pistons you may need. But as far as the steps go in disassembly and putting it together it's the same.

[@genetixx01]

BTW, I have a question you might have the answer to. Is it possible to change the piston ring on a vibe /matrix engine without taking the engine out? And if so, would you recommand to do it without taking it out or is it still better to take the time to take the engine out? Thank you very much!

[@MakeItMike]

Thanks for the compliments! It is possible to drop pistons out the bottom of the engine but I've never done it. That's a ton of labor to replace such a small part. My thinking is if the rings are worn out then so is the rest of the internals so might as well hit the reset button and do an overhaul.

[@rahalati]

Thanks, that's a great video. I think the 1NZFE and 2NZFE are greatly similar form what I saw. Therefore, could you tell me what's the minimum I should open/remove to be able to only change the timing chain tensioner of my 2NZFE while the engine is still on the car. Other types of engines the tensioner is outside the engine. But 1NZFE & 2NZFE is inside the engine

[@MakeItMike]

I don't see how it's possible without removing the entire timing chain cover. The cover has the oil pump seal in it which I don't think would be good to try and twist. Therefor, directly pulling the entire cover off strait out would be safer. Just my two cents.

[@rahalati]

@@MakeItMike Thanks for your reply. I agree and understand that I need to open the entire timing chain cover. But do you think I need to remove the timing chain itself to be able to replace the tensioner? I do not want to screw up the position of the timing chain. All I need is to replace the tensioner which I suspect is the source of the engine noise.

[@MakeItMike]

@@rahalati I don't see why you couldn't put some zip ties around the chain in the exact same area the tensioner is pushing on and have them pull the chain across to the other side to keep the tension while you replace the tensioner. As long as you make sure the teeth don't get off any of the sprocket teeth you are good. I would also Zip tie the chain sections in contact with the sprockets so it holds those tight from slipping off too. That being said, if your are going to the trouble to take the whole cover off I would change the chain while you're at it. The tensioner may have extended as far as it can go because the chain has stretched over time. It's just so much labor to get in their to only change one little part. Partsouq and amayama are good websites to get oem toyota parts for half the dealer costs. You just need to know the oem part numbers when using those sites.

[@j.t.kelleheriv4214]

🤙

[@Ahmadzeee]

Hey bro is the upper oil pan removable without taking off the engine? I cracked mine and gonna grab one from pick n pull but don’t know how to remove the wngine

[@MakeItMike]

I don't think so because if you remove that lower part of the engine block you have to replace the rear main seal, which can't be done without removing the transmission. At that point you would only have one motor mount on the motor so you would have to suspend the engine with a cherry picker, which at that point might as well remove the engine and make it easier. You might want to look into getting the crack welded without removing the engine. Might work.

[@williambrucesanders6878]

How much would a shop charge

[@SuperRamon77777]

I'm Ramon 2007 Toyota Yaris 1.5L Manual Transmission LE Echo....thank you for video.... I've never done this SO I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU IF YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION FOR ME AS IN VIDEOS AND READING MATERIAL?

[@MakeItMike]

This is part 1 of 7 videos so far. I'm thinking I'll be able to finish the engine in the 8th episode. The reading material is all over the internet. I never found just one solid source for everything I show in the videos for specs. I had to piece everything together. Probably best thing is to take notes as you watch the videos I made then you will have your own custom rebuild book.

[@TonyMontana-xf8fr]

I have a 2003 toyota allion 1.5L 1nzfe

[@connorlearmonth665]

About to do the same project on my Toyota bB. How’s the machine shop stuff going?

[@MakeItMike]

Finished up with the machine shop last week, just waiting for some parts from Toyota.

[@connorlearmonth665]

@@MakeItMike nice! Looking forward to the next video.

[@user-hc8qh4jk2r]

whats is the difference between 2nz-fe engine?

[@JeffLoh-ze4uv]

Can do u do 1AZ-FE engine rebuild

[@genetixx01]

Hi, I just have one question. Where the heck have you learned all this awesome stuff man? Are you a mechanic or just an extremely talented DIYer? I need to do that on my 2005 pontiac Vibe with the 1ZZ something engine (the basic one) and I'm just freaking skared of fucking things up and losing everything. I would kill to have some friends with your level of expertise to have some fun in the garage and do great stuff like that. I noticed your engine is pretty similar to the 1ZZ something, and your tutorial is very good honestly, but I'm not brave enough to do it alone.

[@scionnn]

They are similar, but your better off looking at your manual.

[@skhurshid248]

When will you upload next video

[@user-rk2ol1ob7m]

How many mails did this engine drive?

[@yamnjam]

Are there any follow up videos to this? I couldn't find any on your channel.

[@MakeItMike]

Still in process

[@yamnjam]

@@MakeItMike Me too lol. The engine on my Scion xb just blew.

[@jawedben7710]

Haima m3 have same motor

[@tylerbeach9320]

I’ve seen people pull the timing tensioner right out the back of the engine. Possible?

[@MakeItMike]

Unless they cut some sort of access hole in the cover I don't see how they could. Everything under the timing chain cover gets drenched in oil.

[@tylerbeach9320]

@@MakeItMike I've seen it on matrix and first gen corollas I believe zz-fe is maybe the engine name. I don't see how it works out tho.

[@SuperRamon77777]

My engine overheated, can it be rebuilt?

[@Normalhowaboutyou]

Running all the way like crazy? I have a 2.5 L. You don’t know what pain is😂😂😂

[@user-wp3bd8xg3d]

Some mechanic told me that this engine for the 07 Yaris was actually designed by Mitsubishi and only manufActured by Toyota. Is that true? Guy kinda gypped me so dont take his word... he said a Toyota engineer told him that. Idk.

[@mikeskeetshootingcy8692]

The intake name think is not true i have a 2nz and i have the same manufolds to see the engine it has its name carved behind the intake manifolds

[@TeezerDriz]

❤it would have been great if you focused in on the condition of cam caps, cam lobes, crank bearing etc surfaces for any wear marks. Focus on piston skirt wear, ring sticking, ring tension, barrel wear. Show us whats causing excessive oil consumption. Great video otherwise.

[@user-xb5bq8oc7x]

Можно замена АКПП 2WD

[@meberra]

Is there a way to do this with out removing the engine?

[@MakeItMike]

Not if you are going to have the block checked out by a machine shop. I wouldn't skip that part. This block ended up needing to be bored out.

[@henryrolt3747]

​@@MakeItMike the blocks aren't designed to be re-bored. They have a fancy coating on the cylinder bores. Interested to see if yours goes OK.

[@MakeItMike]

@@henryrolt3747 Mine had to be bored out .010 over. With the high mileage these engines get its almost inevitable to have a slight oval wear to the cylinder walls. The block has cast iron inserts for the cylinders when casted by the factory.

[@henryrolt3747]

@@MakeItMike will be interesting to see of all goes well. In theory they should be the same as any other cast iron liners without the coating.

[@MakeItMike]

@@henryrolt3747 check out "Toyota Echo Enthusiasts" on Facebook. It's a cool group to see what others have done.

[@user-bn5wt8qr6u]

هذه نفس محرك كورلا 2004 لدي

[@Cusers]

13:!1 why piston are not perfect circle sorry im noob

[@navekeinan]

Toyota's engines are very reliable but it seems like this one took some abuse , the color of the oil is burnt.

[@MakeItMike]

Yep, probably a 10,000 mile oil change interval enthusiast owned it.

[@TonyMontana-xf8fr]

I will subscribe once i found the complete rebuild

[@dueusjhdhwidhshfhe5129]

Which is the better idea rebuilding the oil burning engine with new piston ring kit or put a 2.5 liter engine 2arfe

[@MakeItMike]

If the 2.5 was an easy to swap, that would be so fun in an echo!

[@bartmormino907]

Where do you get parts at?

[@MakeItMike]

Mostly Amazon, Amayama and Partsouq.

[@morongwamoseki381]

Can I have your email please

[@MakeItMike]

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