Good afternoon,

I have a 1989 Toyota 22re pickup. It was sitting for a few years before I recently was able to start working on it again. The other day I decided to take it to town and fill it up. It was driving fine. On the way home it started to lose power.

I was able to keep it around 30 mph in 3rd gear. Any thing above it would start to lose power. Once I got on the dirt road and started going up a small hill it couldn't even hold power in 1st gear. It would start to bog down and die unless I pushed on the clutch. However when I put it in 4Low it would do just fine going up the hill in every gear.

Any ideas would be very helpful and appreciated. I did just order a fuel filter. Just trying to figure out the simple things first.

Thank you

 

If it was sitting with gas in it then I’m going with that. Probably gummed up and plugged. I’d take a look at the pump also because I bet it’s varnished up as well.