Just purchased Tacoma, did I buy a grenade? Please help
05-14-2017, 05:48 PM
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Just purchased Tacoma, did I buy a grenade? Please help
Cars has really bad sputter when heavy on gas and very noticeable at certain loads in particular (50mph-60mph; certain rpm ranges) but clears up. Lately it's gotten worse. Noticed my ignition coil was broken at the connector to pic tail. Replaced with new coil. Cool. Ran good again. Then didn't. Started running like crap under certain load conditions and is worse then before. Was throwing knock sensor error code. Figured it was clearly a bad coil not performing due to greater resistance which would be throwing the code. Nope. Ordered two brand new Denso knock sensors. But why is something telling me that's not going to fix my problem judging by the way my truck sounded like shaking a tin can full of marbles whenever I give it gas while driving. If anyone has experienced this or can verify this really is just the knock sensors I can sleep easy knowing the parts on its way. Want to do the fuel injectors too but if my engine is smoked it doesn't really matter, any advice or help is much appreciated. Thanks
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05-14-2017, 06:20 PM
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1999 SR5 PreRunner 2WD V6 3.4 Automatic. Side note, went to my local part store guy goes "you sure it's an SR5 nothing in my database shows your config as being such", I was under the impression Speed rally 5 just meant I had a 5 speed auto tranny.
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05-14-2017, 06:23 PM
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Previous owner states the engine was replaced. Body is clean gram looks great. Just getting this funky jerking and check engine light that has a mind of its own. One minute it's there. Then next it's gone. Then it's back with a vengeance.
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05-15-2017, 05:28 AM
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So when I originally scanned it I came back with just bank one sensor malfunction. The other code (other sensor bank) did come up also detecting a knock. Doesn't this mean that something is causing the knock, not necessarily the knock sensor is bad
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