Just bought an '07. Need high-mileage maintenance tips

You will have much more use for a 1/2" torque wrench vs. a 1/4" torque wrench.
You should buy 1/2" and 3/8" breaker bars to increase your leverage, when you have very tight fasteners to loosen.
You will need an engine oil filter cap wrench which is driven by a 3/8" extension. The best type is stamped steel, not plastic. Bring along a replacement oil filter to make sure the wrench fits tightly.

 

Tip: When doing fluid changes, always make sure you can loosen the fill bolt (transaxle fluid) or oil filter housing before taking the drain bolt off and dumping the fluid.

 

Another coolant drain fill for engine and inverter loop is due. First one due at 100,000miles/10years. Then every 50,000miles/5years.

Toyota maintenance schedule is a minimum. No brake fluid flush mentioned, and the important transaxle drain/fill. You can always go above and beyond the minimum of what Toy lists. You just have to decide how much more you want to do.

Art's Automotive makes some compelling points about a more aggressive change interval for brake fluid and coolant. Prius 30k Service

 

^ newer Prius schedule (2014 onward?) does call for brake fluid change, tri-yearly, no distance, I believe.

Regarding torque wrenches, a 1/2" drive with 1/2" to 3/8" adapter is very versatile. In my experience the most common use is wheel lug nuts, and that's a fairly high torque value: 1/2" tends to be designed for that range.

I've got a 1/2" AND 3/8", the latter's definitely better for things like spark plugs, and more suitable for things like oil filter, drain bolts, calliper bolts and so on.

I've heard any torque wrench tends to be most accurate near the middle of its range, most out of whack at its extremes

I made a half-nice person attempt to test both my torque wrenchs' accuracy: placed them both on a lug nut set to something like 45 lb. then placed a digital tensioning scale carefully 1 foot off centre and tugged. The were both surprisingly similar and accurate, at least as far as I could tell.

 

OP , Exstudent makes some great points, take a close look at Prius 30 k service at bottom.
Mendel makes some good points too.

 

Awesome.....

 

U have more miles than mine on your PCV valve, changed mine at 150k, wow, urs has some use showing for sure. Prob not to bad getting out , after u move things away, bit tight in there.
Good news bout ur plugs.
Need to do my throttle body cleaning . Need to look up cleaners to use.
Hoping someone will still post for us, how to get to the hybrid battery fan to clean.

 

Thanks, did u notice a difference in running aft PCV and throttle body cleaning, or maybe your still working on it.

 

Not a lot of room for transmission filling , after draining.
Think I use to use a long tube into filler opening and funnel up on top.
Seems like the fill top off level is short of the fill mark. I just let mine run out , and said close enough.
Some may do it different.
The cool thing about doing most of what ur doing, u will be good to go for a long time, with just general stuff after that. I see folks round me that have domestic vehicles with similar mileage, man do they have to dump some money into repairs .
Nice camera or camera on phone, btw.

 

Did you shake the old valve to hear how the rattle sounded compared to the new PCV valve?

 

Just devils advocate: if you left used PCV valve to soak in something like carb cleaner, would it be good as new. Or does spring weaken?

 

It is OK to clean the PCV valve. A new one costs ~$6, so what is the point - unless you are in some Third World country where you can't easily get parts.