I recently bought an 81 Toyota 2wd Pickup. I have carb issues that I'm not mechanically inclined enough to resolve and haven't found anyone to work on it. I'm in the Jackson MS area, the 2 reputable shops I was referred to will not work on it. Does anyone know of someone who will work on the carb near Jackson MS?

In the morning, I have to use starting fluid to make it crank initially. Past that, every time I crank it, I have to manually choke it and then it will crank fine. Without manually choking it, it will NOT crank. When I say manually choke it, I mean remove the air breather cap and close the passenger side off completely.

Once running, it will idle but not smoothly. It goes up, down up down...It is idled too high currently but my messing with it made it worse. When I idled it down I could not get it to crank.
While driving, it drives normally, it isn't sluggish, and runs pretty smoothly.

This is the original carb on it, as far as I know it has never been rebuilt. There are 4 electrical wires that go to the carb, two of them are disconnected. I found where they go the other day and reconnected them temporarily but it didn't seem to help.

Should I buy the kit from Napa and try to rebuild the carb myself? Or am I better off to buy a Weber carb and put on it.

I hate to waste the 50 dollars on a carb kit if I'm going to have to end up buying the Weber anyway.

Any help or suggestions is appreciated.

 

I finally spoke to the Speed Shop between Jackson and Byram that will work on the carb. He said he would charge about 100 to rebuild and a little more to put it on the truck and get it set.

 

My opinion, go with the Speed Shop, have it rebuilt and adjusted correctly. Well worth the money. If you buy a Weber you will still have to adjust the carb and continue to adjust as part of your normal maintenance. The factory carb works fine once set correctly.

 

After typing this, I was referred to a guy at Morton from someone on another forum. I called and talked to him, he's worked on Toyotas since 74 and is very familiar with these. Thats exactly the kind of mechanic I was looking for, a Toyota specialist! It made my day!!

 

Oh yeah, he's going to work on the carb on it, not going to fool with the Weber.
thanks

 

My carb update was I took a mechanic in Morton MS a carb kit from Napa and my truck. 173 dollars later and my truck's carb is like new.

 

glad you found someone to do you carb correctly. I had mine rebuilt and it came back worse..

 

Thanks...This guy was awesome.....he's been working on Toyotas since 74 and seems to know them inside and out. He was also a very honest man and fair on his prices. I couldn't have been any more pleased!

 

That's great you got yours figured out! As such I'm going to piggy back on your thread I'm currently having troubles passing emmissions with mine,. We have recently adopted a pretty strict emissions program here and it sucks. I can't get my carb to respond to the idle adjustment screw, screw in, idles high, screw out, idles high!

They spent way to long under the hood looking at the evap systems for me to be comfortable ripping it all out, but I have a question for all of you...

Do you think I have a better chance of passing emissions with the stock setup, or a weber i just bought? With the weber, its a fresh carb and will most likely run great; but there's no reburner so I would assume most of those unburnt vapors would increase the emmissions.. Coupled with the fact that I would have to remove some of the emission stuff.

What do you guys think?

 

I have no clue on that one. Good luck though!

 

Not knowing where your located... you stated strict emission laws. That typically means you cannot install an aftermarket carb unless it physically performs like the OE. Meaning it has all the vacuum ports for evap and what not.
I think you would have an easier time passing with your stock setup.