'88 Toyota pickup question

[Black]

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?

[Wild eep]

Right....

[bazookaman]

bad cat.

[Carm]

Fuel Filter, Fuel Pump, distributor cap and rotor. Or any many other possibilities.

Joe

[lost in space]

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.

[wave rider]

Did 1988s have fuel injection or carburetor?

=wr=

[DCrunch]

My 1988 4X4 has fuel injection.

[Thrift Store Scott]

wave rider wrote:
Did 1988s have fuel injection or carburetor?

=wr=

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.

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.

[Black]

Thanks everyone.
Food for thought, I guess.