Reseting timing belt light

The timing belt change light comes on every time you roll 100,000 kilometres regardless of when the belt is actually changed. To reset it, remove the lower right section of the dashboard by removing the 2 screws that hold on the fuel filler cover lever.





There is a screw in the little white piece of plastic that is just left of the key lock for the ignition (where the screwdriver is pointing):





Remove the screw and move it to the other hole. This toggles the timing light between being on for odd or even 100,000s of kms. When your light comes on again after another 100,000 km move it back to the original position.



Now if only changing the timing belt itself were that easy... More pictures to follow.

So in theory if your light is not on and you move the screw it should then be on?

Thanks for that.

On the 1KZ-TE engine the timing belt is that easy!

Yes in theory, it should come on.

Good one , thanks for that mate.Got another 20k to go before I need it.

Fantastic...I was hoping someone would post this info!
I thought you had to take out the whole dash but this looks relatively painless.

Yeah dont worry you still might have to... mine is nothing like zoochys, will have to take whole dash out one of these days.

Dang....yeah I've seen a picture somewhere that shows the same type of screw holes on the back of the dash/combination meter circuit board...ie you have to remove the meter....havent checked mine yet!

I cannot find the screw to reset the timing belt light in my 1999 model super custom 4wd living saloon ex
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Yeah mate i never found mine either, think its different on the newer models. My lamp eventually went out.

I had kinda gotten used to that little light..........but now she just has to go!

How often do you need change the timing belt in the 2.8ltr (1993). Was reading in the manual and it reckoned every 10,000 miles, which ead liek a misprint to me surely?

ps. cheers for letting me know how to remove that bottom right panel, has been vexing me and the factory fit speakers are seriously in need of replacement....

I think 100,000 kms would be right....

Toldsimply - the timing belt light on my 1991 2.8l came on at 90,000km. The vehicle was imported used from Japan so no knowing how genuine those kms are.

Just to say i have just reset the light on my mothers 95 super long hi-top (its a base spec van) and the screw is in the back of the dash binnacle and clearly marked, my 94 custom looks the same, i think its only the sc's that you can reset with the clocks in place. it takes a bit longer but still relatively straight foward. wouldn't have had a clue how to reset it without looking on this forum, so thanks again to all those that post on here.

The KZH100 series Super custom (08/93 upto around the 99 era) are on the back of the dash cluster.

You need to remove the bottom panel as shown above, then remove the black surround that is around speedo cluster/airvents/radio/buttons, to do this part is very tricky (hidden screws up inside the air vents in the center of the dash) and time consuming, it normally requires the clock and extra buttons to be unplugged (be careful as the clock and the hazard lights are the same style plug on most vans).

Then the speedo comes out with 4 screws around it. Once out there are 3-4 plugs on the back of it which need to be unplugged and you will see the screw marked "timing belt" move the screw over one hole and reinstall all your dash in the opposite order to above.

Hope this helps someone down the line.

I can confirm that it is the same process as zoochy's LH107G on my LH107W (analog vs digital cluster). Mine came on a couple days ago @100,000km. So nice to not have to pull the dash to get at that screw!

It's irrelevant now that we don't have the van any more, but ours was on the back of the cluster and damn that speedo cable is hard to unplug and even harder to plug back in so you folks with the electronic speedo have it so much easier. Clearly little Japanese hands were really needed for that job.
As our belt was changed at an odd interval, the screw was simply left out altogether on ours because it would be meaningless. Labels were attached to the engine instead with the information.

Cheers for the info mate, I might give it a try one I get it back on the road :-)