RAV4 PAB4-Toyota Toyota
1. Car operation
2. Maintenance
   General information on operational materials and adjusting data
   Volumes and periodicity of maintenance
   Check of levels of operational liquids
   Survey of tires and check of pressure of air
   Replacement of engine oil and oil filter
   Check and replacement of rubber tapes of brushes of a screen wiper
   Check and adjustment of a free wheeling of a pedal of coupling
   Check, service and charging of the storage battery
   Check, adjustment of a tension and replacement of a poliklinovy belt of a drive of hinged units
   Check and replacement of hoses in a motor compartment
   Shift of wheels
   Check of a condition of seat belts
   Check of a condition of brakes (each 24 000 km or 12 months)
   Replacement of the air filter
   Check of fuel system
   Check of level of oil in a mechanical transmission
   Check of level of oil in a transfer case of cars with an automatic transmission
   Check of a condition of a suspension bracket and steering
   Check of protective covers of power shafts
   Check of level of oil in reverse main gear on all-wheel drive cars
   Replacement of the filter of ventilation of salon on cars since 2001
   Replacement of brake liquid
   Replacement of the fuel filter on release cars till 2001
   Check and replacement of spark plugs
   Check and replacement of a cover and rotor of the distributor of ignition
   Replacement of cooling liquid and washing of system of cooling
   Check of system of regeneration паров fuels
   Check of system of production of the fulfilled gases
   Oil and filter replacement in an automatic transmission
   Oil replacement in a mechanical transmission
   Oil replacement in a transfer case on all-wheel drive cars with an automatic transmission
   Oil replacement in reverse main gear on all-wheel drive cars
   Check and replacement of the valve and hose of ventilation of a case (PCV)
   Check and adjustment of gaps in a drive of Valves
3. Engines
4. Cooling and conditioning systems
5. Fuel system and system of production of the fulfilled gases
6. Ignition system
7. The monitoring system and decrease in toxicity of the fulfilled gases
8. Coupling
9. Transmission
10. Driveshaft and shaft of a drive of driving wheels
11. Brake system
12. Suspension bracket
13. Steering and running gear
14. Body
15. Electric equipment
Electric equipment schemes






Toyota RAV4>> Maintenance>> Check and replacement of rubber tapes of brushes of a screen wiper
       NOTE
Recommended periodicity: each 12 000 km of run or 6 months.

The faultless condition of brushes of screen wipers is a necessary condition of ensuring good visibility.
To avoid deformation of brushes, it is necessary to clear regularly them means for washing of glasses. At strong pollution of brushes, for example the remains of insects, clear them by means of a sponge or a pure rag.
One-two time a year it is recommended to replace brushes of screen wipers.
At frosts before a trip check, whether brushes froze to glass.
At an automatic wash of the car on a windscreen wax particles can get. That them to remove, add in a tank of a stekloomyvatel means for washing of the glasses, possessing property to dissolve wax.
Tank filling for liquid means for cleaning of glasses with voskorastvoryayushchy properties can essentially improve action of screen wipers. Zhirorastvoryayushchiye cleaners do not clear glass of wax completely.
The damaged brushes replace.
Lift the lever of a brush of a screen wiper from a windscreen. Turn a screen wiper brush at an angle 90 ° to the screen wiper lever.

Fig. 2.8. Removal of a brush of a screen wiper from the screen wiper lever: And — a clamp


Press a clamp And (fig. 2.8) of a brush of a screen wiper, then move a brush on the lever and, moving it in the opposite direction, remove from the screen wiper lever.

Fig. 2.9. The direction of removal of a rubber tape from a screen wiper brush


Release captures of a brush of a screen wiper from dredging in an end face of a rubber tape and take a rubber tape of a screen wiper from a brush end face (fig. 2.9) .
Insert the end of a new rubber tape into captures on the right side of a brush of a screen wiper and, moving, establish it into place, before fixing of captures of a brush of a screen wiper in dredging of a rubber tape.
Establish screen wiper brushes on levers in sequence, return to removal. Thus the clamp should fix accurately a brush on the screen wiper lever.
Lower the screen wiper lever on a windscreen.