88 pickup wont start, really odd
01-05-2012, 04:38 PM
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88 pickup wont start, really odd
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So for about a year now my 1988 Toyota 4x4 22re pickup has every now and then not been starting. This happened perhaps once a month, then about once a week, and now it is every time I try and start it.
What is happening is when I turn the key, with or without the safety cancel for the clutch, all the electrical works, I can here the starter engaging as well as the fuel pump, but the truck doesn't start.
Now sometimes when I just sit there holding the key it will suddenly start after a little while, or sometimes it won't. Sometimes I can start it by push starting it (although it might just be coincidence), and sometimes that doesn't work either.
I had an extra starter when down and got it tested, it worked fine, put it in, didn't change a thing
Put in my extra coil, didn't change a thing
Re-stripped the wires going to my battery terminal, as well as cleaned that, didn't help
bypassed the circuit for the safety cancel and little button that the clutch pedal pushes by connecting those two wires, which again didn't work.
Now one thing I have thought is that the prob could be the flywheel, but that makes no sense because sometimes after it won't start, I will try an hour or so later, with out even so much as moving the truck an inch, and it will start, leaving me thinking it is an electrical problem, and also leaving me very confused.
So for about a year now my 1988 Toyota 4x4 22re pickup has every now and then not been starting. This happened perhaps once a month, then about once a week, and now it is every time I try and start it.
What is happening is when I turn the key, with or without the safety cancel for the clutch, all the electrical works, I can here the starter engaging as well as the fuel pump, but the truck doesn't start.
Now sometimes when I just sit there holding the key it will suddenly start after a little while, or sometimes it won't. Sometimes I can start it by push starting it (although it might just be coincidence), and sometimes that doesn't work either.
I had an extra starter when down and got it tested, it worked fine, put it in, didn't change a thing
Put in my extra coil, didn't change a thing
Re-stripped the wires going to my battery terminal, as well as cleaned that, didn't help
bypassed the circuit for the safety cancel and little button that the clutch pedal pushes by connecting those two wires, which again didn't work.
Now one thing I have thought is that the prob could be the flywheel, but that makes no sense because sometimes after it won't start, I will try an hour or so later, with out even so much as moving the truck an inch, and it will start, leaving me thinking it is an electrical problem, and also leaving me very confused.
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I tried reaing your post and at first thought the starter wasnt engaging then when you mentioned coil and fuel pump I was thinking you meant motor was turning over just not starting.
I have an 88 also and think there is a relay involved somewhere but could be wrong as far as the starter.
On the hard start. When was last tuneup? Check your fuel filter. Just a few things I would start with and see how things go from there.
I have an 88 also and think there is a relay involved somewhere but could be wrong as far as the starter.
On the hard start. When was last tuneup? Check your fuel filter. Just a few things I would start with and see how things go from there.
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