Hello everyone. I started my account about 2 weeks ago when I bought a 1997 FJ80. Drove it home today. It's in decent shape for an upstate NY vehicle... some rust so some light bodywork is in my near-future. 157k miles on it and when I test drove it, it ran extremely well... no issues or flags, everything works, so I bought it. Almost 3 weeks later, able to pick the vehicle up (DMV has been by mail to transfer plates and registration in NY due to COVID).
The drive home was about 80 miles. Roughly 10 miles into it, the vehicle started bucking a little and not allowing smooth transitions in speed. Each time I let up on the gas and got back on it, it would buck a little. Another 10 miles up the road and the bucking was more pronounced and it stalled the first time. I had to feather the gas at every slow-down or stop to keep it running all the way home. It would not idle. No warning lights, all operating metrics on dash were normal. Stalled it about 4 times on the whole trip but would have stalled 20 or more if it were not for transitioning into neutral and feathering the gas to keep it running.
A little frustrated, we decided to go in and have lunch when we reached home. No more than 5 minutes later I took a peak at it in the driveway and there it sat. About 20-30 minutes later after eating lunch, I went out to look at the vehicle in my driveway scratching my head to look down to see a fairly large "leak-stain" coming from directly under the front bumper on the driver's side. It was that far forward... under the bumper and forward past the bumper. It seemed to be an oily gas mixture not actively leaking... and I can not tell where it came from when I get under the vehicle... It looked almost more like pressure was relieve and enough fluid was let off... no puddle, more like a blast-stain or something like that.
Any ideas?
Thanks everyone, and as I get more experience with this vehicle I hope to return to share thoughts and assistance where I can.
The drive home was about 80 miles. Roughly 10 miles into it, the vehicle started bucking a little and not allowing smooth transitions in speed. Each time I let up on the gas and got back on it, it would buck a little. Another 10 miles up the road and the bucking was more pronounced and it stalled the first time. I had to feather the gas at every slow-down or stop to keep it running all the way home. It would not idle. No warning lights, all operating metrics on dash were normal. Stalled it about 4 times on the whole trip but would have stalled 20 or more if it were not for transitioning into neutral and feathering the gas to keep it running.
A little frustrated, we decided to go in and have lunch when we reached home. No more than 5 minutes later I took a peak at it in the driveway and there it sat. About 20-30 minutes later after eating lunch, I went out to look at the vehicle in my driveway scratching my head to look down to see a fairly large "leak-stain" coming from directly under the front bumper on the driver's side. It was that far forward... under the bumper and forward past the bumper. It seemed to be an oily gas mixture not actively leaking... and I can not tell where it came from when I get under the vehicle... It looked almost more like pressure was relieve and enough fluid was let off... no puddle, more like a blast-stain or something like that.
Any ideas?
Thanks everyone, and as I get more experience with this vehicle I hope to return to share thoughts and assistance where I can.
