Doug18

cool i was just wondering ... i swear these trucks have more dead leads

Doug18

the igniter was the problem ... i went to about 5 junkyards saturday and finally found one that even had a toyota truck (didnt see any carb celicas) i popped the hood to the truck and just about everything was gone ... i mean even the fluid reservoirs were gone ... but i looked and sitting between the front radiator support and wheel well was the coil and igniter already disconnected and everything ... told the guy at the front counter it was out of a old ford truck and he only charged me $20+tax

i got it home switched over the plug ends (it had round plugs) and the truck started as soon as i tapped the key didnt even turn over once

but i found out today when i was out for a sunday drive that i need an alternator too (luckily that is cheap and i was only 1/2 a mile away from home when it shut off and my neighbor owns a towing company :biggrin


so anyways thanks for all the help guys!

1990yota-pickup

i got a new alt for 25 bucks at autozone.. a while back..

Doug18

yea thats the price i picked mine up for today

Gov't Mule

Glad you got it runnin again....nice score at the JY.

Doug18

i was surprised how hard it was to find any toyota truck at the junkyards (not just 1st gen) i guess that speaks for the quality of these trucks

... but at one of the junkyards i did find a buick Invicta wagon

similar to this one


we researched it a little and apparently there were only 1600 made in the style we saw

1990yota-pickup

the only bad, was i went to 5 different autozone's to get it.. and come to find out it wasnt even bad.. just had a bad connector that plugged in.. didnt even notice the connector.. but that was after the fact...

Doug18

yea i had them look up where one was available ... my alternator had a bad lead too but i had the alternator tested and it was shot

1990yota-pickup

Doug18 you should pick up that buick wagon and put a 22re in it.. or maybe 3.4 v6

and just drive it stock, or maybe turn it into a 4x4 wagon.. and put a snow plow out front.. and a canoe up top, with fishing poles hanging out the back window.

broncrider

hahaha a 22re? that old car would be the wieght of two first gens put together. maybe a 3.4!!

1990yota-pickup

maybe you could couple (2) 22RE'S like they do with the tractor pulls

Doug18

with all the space that was under the hood im sure you could put 4 22Rs under there ... just think of all those igniters that you would have to buy