Question for the Toyota Boys

[jerryg79]

here we go again!

[Violentv8toy]

i don't doubt it...i retract my earlier statement about the taking it to a mechanic....but it won't be a walk in the park...god knows my 22re wasn't.

but nonetheless...let us know when its fixed and what was wrong.

[uglyota]

I felt like a retard when I gave up on mine and took it to a mechanic, who found that the only problem was a bad relay (behind the glove box!).

It's always something simple...just not always so simple to find.

(Like an injector wire that gets corroded or pinched in the factory loom)

Fredo if you end up needing parts let me know...I've got at least 2 of everything.

(ignition control module? They burn up sometimes...still throwing out ideas)

[Fredo]

Originally posted by uglyota
Good call on the idle screw Mario...that thing can really cause headaches on a 22re.

Never heard of the egr screwing things up, have heard of the PCV valve screwing things up (on top of the valve cover). Just a check valve, easy to test, about $2 to replace.

You're positive it's not throwing codes?

What about the temp. sending unit making it run rich (telling the comp it's cold)?

Any possible way you put the distributor in one tooth off? Kinda hard to get right since it rotates about 1/8 turn as you slide it in. When I did this, mine was gutless until the HG blew Could explain why you had to advanced the timing so far for it to run right.

PS :
Not too cool

I've replaced the PCV valve,
temp sending unit checks out,
distributor isn't a tooth off because if it was, you couldn't even get the timing remotely close because of the degrees between the 4 points on the reluctor ring.

[Fredo]

Originally posted by Violentv8toy
i don't doubt it...i retract my earlier statement about the taking it to a mechanic....but it won't be a walk in the park...god knows my 22re wasn't.

but nonetheless...let us know when its fixed and what was wrong.

You think a 22RE is bad....try a 5MGE supra engine....i spent a couple weeks totally rebuilding one and putting it back in my supra.....worked my way through the 6 million vaccuum lines and the electrical connections. It was actually kind of fun. I'll get this 22RE figured out, I just figured it might have been some little notorious quirk that they all did at one time or another or something.

[uglyota]

I forgot you timed it with a light (I "timed" mine by ear when I tried to drive it halfway across the country with the dist 90* off)

Originally posted by Fredo
I just figured it might have been some little notorious quirk that they all did at one time or another or something.

It does...lots of them!
I would never in a million years have guessed that you had owned a MkIII (II?) supra.
The camaro must feel gutless after having driven one of those babies, eh?

[Violentv8toy]

actually yeah...the 22re has those obnoxious little quirks that you were talking about. one is the idle lope that disappears when in 4wd, which i had....and the other is what you're describing. I just see the 22re as a big clusterfawk of an engine that happens to be pretty sweet if its running properly.

btw...clean the throttle body and the little hoses that go to and from it.

[uglyota]

don't forget the main efi relay that goes out when your windshield starts leaking in the corners and drips water down into the fuse box

[Fredo]

Originally posted by uglyota
I forgot you timed it with a light (I "timed" mine by ear when I tried to drive it halfway across the country with the dist 90* off)
It does...lots of them!
I would never in a million years have guessed that you had owned a MkIII (II?) supra.
The camaro must feel gutless after having driven one of those babies, eh?

I had two of them....an 83 and an 85. They were fun little cars with the 4.10s, but not near as fun as 4.10s with 348 ftlbs of LT1 torque in front of them.

[uglyota]

:drool:

[fbronco86]

i have had problems with the tps and it does not sound like a tps problem. you normally can check the voltage coming from the tps see if its good that way.

[uglyota]

so how'd you fix it?
(I know you did)

[Fredo]

actually, I did yard work and got drunk this weekend instead of working on it. I'll probably work on it tonight and throughout the week. I'll let you know what I find.

[froader03]

that is so amazing, my weekend story exactly.

[uglyota]

Hey Freddy!
You gonna hurry up and finish that Heep so you can finish working on your Dad's truck?