Anyone in Colorado have a 22re for sale and check out my post in newbie tech about 22re knocking help! I bought another yota 87 runner 156 k miles for a good price I knew the chain was stretched and needed to be done but it ran great driving Down the hwy up a hill it died and when I popped started it it was knocking so pulled over and towed it home pulled the valve cover off parts of guides are broke. How do I know if it jumped time and what could I do to get it back running I know I need a chain but how do I go about re timing it. Any ideas?

 

Welcome to YotaTech.

First, get down to Staples and buy yourself a box of periods. Get some commas too; they're really cheap. I know you're posting from a phone, but if people can't read your post, you won't be able to get help.

Second, do you really want to buy a 22re? Just the engine, the whole truck, or not at all? Or do you want to fix the one you have?

Broken guides are fixable. You don't really care if you've "jumped time," but you do care if the cam got so far out of whack that a piston hit a valve (the 22re is an "interference" engine).

I'd try checking compression (you can do that with the valve cover off, but oil will squirt out, so just drop the cover back on). If you've bent a valve or "jumped time," your compression will go south.

If compression is okay, fixing the guides shouldn't be that tough (I don't speak from experience; 3VZE owners don't worry about guides). Here's the manual for a '93 http://web.archive.org/web/201210231.../8timingch.pdf ; I believe the '87 is pretty close.

 

Thanks for the input and FYI there ain’t a staples for a 150 miles here haha but that answers my question. I know I can do the chain and guides but I didn't know what damage I did to the engine if it did jump, so I will have to do a compression test and I can do that the way it is? Just get a comp tester and wrench the balancer on each cylinder? It’s been sitting for a lil while and some thieves stole my mirrors and battery. I
just getting to where I can work on it.

 

You can't hurt it jump starting it.
I did that for a year once. To cheap to buy a starter.

Supposedly one can hurt the catalytic converter, but I passed smog so...

 

Denvers got good parts yards.
not the best time of year to be running arnd grabbing engines but if you got to, theres options for you.
Diagnose what you got first. Pull spark plugs. Turn your motor over by hand and see what you can see and hear. Does it turn through a full rotation?
If you gotta do a timing chain job and you got a garage, its not hard if you turn wrenches
You might as well do head job and chain together. Not much more work