shaun

Okay so over the last week or so my 86 4runner won't start. After a try or two it will. The first time it happened I thought that the clutch safety switch caused it, but that does not seem to be it as the clutch safety button has no effect whether it is on or off.

When I try to start it there was sometimes a noise coming by the fuse box area, and sometimes it would come from the passenger side kick panel where that metal box is. So just a bit ago I had to leave it at my neighborhood market. The sound was coming from the passenger kick panel on the floor in front of the door. The sound it made was similar to a distorted "EEEEEEEEEE" sound like a relay or something?

Any help or ideas would be helpful.
Batteries fine
already replaced the cylinoid but it was a used one.

Also in the past if it did it, it would usually just start right up after a try or two like a champ like nothing was wrong at all.

This kind of problem is, well lets say I would rather drop the tranny again then have to figure this out on my own.

Any questions that you have I will try and clarify and answer. But this one buggers me.

Also the sound started to stop after I tried it a bunch...? Then the sound was intermittent. Again the battery is fine. A fairly new Interstate.

shaun

Replaced coil not cylanoid..... maybe it is the starter/cylanoid.?

LITLRED

If you do a search you'll find a more than you need to know. I would start by replacing the solenoid contacts. They're cheap. You can troubleshoot with a long jumper wire. I have a test connector (learned from a search) that plugs onto the solonoid (the small starter wire) that I can plug a long jumper to. If it starts form the battery +, then try the back of the ignition switch, then the clutch safety switch. If yours has a starter relay you'll need to include that. This will show where the failure is.

After I replaced my solenoid contacts I still had an intermitant no start issue. The neutral safety start switch was full of crap.

shaun

Okay I will look into that also. Thanks the reason I just poseted instead of searching is because this is such an odd thing.
I am getting a multimeter tonight. The weird thing is when I got it home it acted like it had no power. As if the battery is not connecting properly or there is a short somewhere.
Another thing is I had to disconnect the batter because with the key on and to the on position or just in and the door open no buzzer. If the key was out and in the off position and the door shut a buzzer went off. Basically opposite of what should happen.

Then turning on and off random things the buzzer would either stay on or just buzz on and off as if it was a blinker.

I guess let the fun begin, and here I was going to spend money on a coast trip instead I'll be working on it in the 100+ degree weather ... poop.

shaun

well it started right up today when we tried it.....
I guess waiting for the mutlimeter and run some tests.

shaun

Solved funky wiring from previous, previous owner. House wiring and all that junk. just need new cables from the battery terminal and replace the funky one that was split off to the fuse box right near the battery.

myyota

wrong place