Hey, first post here but have been lurking for a while as I have been looking for a decent toyota..

I just bought this last week,







This is my first toyota and my first carbureted vehicle.

Fixed a couple things so far already:

The blower fan,
water leak,
and I installed a stabilizer shock that came with the truck for my "death wobble"

I do however have one problem, the choke is not hooked up according to the seller and I have to let it warm up for a bit every morning which is not that big of an issue for me.
EXCEPT even after about 10 minutes of warming up at work, and about 10 minutes of driving, there are 2 steep hills before I get to my house.

Just as I get to the top of the first hill, the engine starts to cut out in 3rd gear, rpm drops and I have zero throttle control until I push the clutch in and gear down, and then in 2nd gear after about 2500 rpm it will bog out again, sometimes bad enough where I have to stop, and then crawl up in first when the traffic dies.

Now at first I thought this was due to my lack of choke, as last night I let it cool down then fired it up and took off down my street, and as soon as I got into 3rd even on a flat surface it cut out, like it wasn't getting enough fuel.

Now, my question is do you guys thing I have an issue with carb adjustment, (carb is still new and was supposedly adjusted by someone with carb knowledge) a timing issue, or maybe a weak spark under load.

AFAIK before I bought this truck it has had,

A frame swap onto a refurbished frame,
New fuel tank, pump, and lines front to back,
new brake linings and lines front to back,
new carb,
new rad.

This is all I can think of at the moment!

I appreciate all of your guys' opinions and criticism, sorry for the way to long first post

Cheers

 

No carb experts here eh! not even any yays or nays on the truck :o

 

You may do better to check the 83 & earlier sub forum.