1998 Toyota RAV4 Service and Repair Manual

Fitment on this one is narrow by design: this is the Toyota factory service and repair manual written for the 1998 RAV4 as it was actually built, around the 2.0L four-cylinder (3S-FE) and the body and trim combinations Toyota offered that year, so the clearances, torque figures and procedural sequences you work to are the ones Toyota published for this vehicle rather than values carried over from an adjacent model year.

Engines

• 2.0L 1998CC l4 GAS DOHC Naturally Aspirated

Trims

• Base, 2D Utility, Automatic
• Base, 2D Utility, Standard
• Base, 4D Utility, Automatic
• Base, 4D Utility, Standard
• EV

Known issues on the 1998 RAV4. One recall is on federal record for this model year, NHTSA campaign 20V033000, and it concerns the driver-side frontal air bag inflator module: in a crash severe enough to require air bag deployment, the inflator can rupture. Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing is recalling certain 1998-2000 RAV4 and 1998-1999 RAV4 EV vehicles under that campaign. Owners have filed 92 complaints against the 1998 RAV4, and Toyota has issued 38 technical service bulletins for it.

On a vehicle this age the difference between a repair that holds and one that comes back is often a torque value or a test sequence that changed between model years, and these are the figures Toyota specified for the 1998 RAV4.