Hey everyone. I just put my freshly rebuilt 22re back in the truck. I am ready to start it, but have a couple questions. First, timing. How do I even start? Top dead center and guess with the distributor? Is there a way to get it close before starting so all I need to do is fine tune the timing? Second, oil priming. Just leave the spark plugs out and crank first? Thanks for any replies.

 

to prime, i pull the wire from the coil and crank it for about 10 seconds, wait a few and do it again. a total of 3 times for me. mine made a lot of racket at first and quieted down after awhile.

 

also, here is the page out of the FSM dealing with setting the timing.

 

warm the engine up first like 5min or so before timing it. use a paperclip or somethin tho jump the diagnostic port. the ck engine light should be flashing indicating its at base timing. once thats found, take out jumper wire and adjust from there. also your distributor cap is sometimes marked 1-2-3-4 which gives you an idea where your rotor should be if its close. the fsm requires removal of valve cover but ive never had to do that unless its a rebuild.

 

Jumper diagnostic port, then set timing. THEN remove jumper. Don't try to set timing without the jumper in place. You'll just bugger it all up. Your truck advances and retards timing based off the 5 degrees base setting. Watch your timing light and mark without the jumper, it moves around. A lot. That's your ecu adjusting constantly. Just eyeball the distributor at number 1 with everything at TDC. That'll get ya warmed up. Then do timing and idle.
Mine hadn't run in a while, so I left coil connected, just shut it off if it tried to start. Worked fine for me. 4-5 cranks should get enough oil flowing.

 

Thanks guys. Turns out the truck has a pretty advanced aftermarket alarm system that won't let it start. Gotta figure that out first. Another question though: My FSM for my year, 1986, says nothing about using a jumper to set the timing. I've used the jumper on another Toyota before, but does my year not need it? Again, nothing in the specific 1986 year FSM about it.

 

Haha good luck with the alarm, mine had one too, I thought it was goin to be a PITA to get it sorted but whilst tracing wires I found a switch which turns the alarm system off then I could start it, so frustrating after doing all that work and wanting to see if ya did a good job and then getting stalled by that.
I would just follow your FSM for setting the timing