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'88 Toyota pickup question - Black - 11-29-2009
Friend's car-- not sure of the model, just the year. Little Toyota pickup.
You're driving along and it suddenly loses power. You downshift, throw it into second, and then first to try to kick-start the engine . . . nothing; has to completely stop, and then be restarted with the ignition-- after which time it generally starts almost immediately and runs at least for a little while as if nothing's wrong.
Any clues as to what could cause this?
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - Wild eep - 11-29-2009
Right....
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - bazookaman - 11-29-2009
bad cat.
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - Carm - 11-29-2009
Fuel Filter, Fuel Pump, distributor cap and rotor. Or any many other possibilities.
Joe
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - lost in space - 11-29-2009
Crud in the tank. Drive awhile, the crud gets sucked into the filter. It starts to clog, the engine slows down due to fuel starvation, then quits. With the engine off, the fuel pump is no longer sucking up the crud, crud drifts away from the filter, engine then starts and runs until the crud blocks the fuel filter again. Repeat.
Pure speculation, but it's happened to me. Replaced the fuel filter, it was OK for a few months, then same problem. Another new filter, OK for a few months. Flushed the tank, new filter, happy camper.
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - wave rider - 11-29-2009
Did 1988s have fuel injection or carburetor?
=wr=
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - DCrunch - 11-29-2009
My 1988 4X4 has fuel injection.
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - Thrift Store Scott - 11-29-2009
wave rider wrote:Both. Among the four-cylinders, the 22R engine is carbureted, the 22RE engine has electronic fuel injection. As far as I know, all US Toyota truck V6's have fuel injection.
Did 1988s have fuel injection or carburetor?
=wr=
There was also a smaller carbureted four-cylinder that was available on the most basic Toyota pickups through at least 1986, but they're fairly rare because they only came in the "price leader" model with zero options and old-style dual latches on the tailgate.
Re: '88 Toyota pickup question - Black - 11-30-2009
Thanks everyone.
Food for thought, I guess.