No what's wrong with my truck?

[Zack1978]

Hey everyone,
If you have been following the other thread, the head gasket was replaced and it seems that the front cyl (closer to the rad) is the one that blew the gasket. But I guess the fact that it was running poorly was maked by the head gasket. SO the shop gets the truck back together, and they call me and ask if the truck was running ok before the head gasket blew. So I said it was fine. Well now the truck goes from running fine to running poorly in seconds and goes back to running fine again. When it is running poorly, it almost stalls out and the exhaust is bad when it is running poorly. When you step on the gas at those times, it seems to backfire a bit and run horribly. Then it will magically cleear up, and the truck will run perfectly?? So what the hell is wrong now?? The shop feels that the carb is gummed up and clogged up and that it needs to be rebuilt. That might be the issue because the truck only has 37,000 miles on it and it sat for long periods of time. Has anyone else ever faced this issue? Please help, before I send this dammmm truck to the crusher.


Zack

 

[2ndGenToyotaFan]

ahhhhhhh don't crush it! hehe

If you trust the work and opinion of this shop, then I'd say have them rebuild the carb. Seems like a resonable thing to me with the miles and age.... From your other thread it sounds like it was running reasonable before....? If so, they may just have something hooked up wrong.


I work at sears and you won't believe the number of people who leave gas in their mowers and weed eaters over winter, then come complain in the spring when they won't start...

 

[Cards81fan]

I would almost try a can of seafoam thru the fuel/intake system just to see what it does

On a 100 buck truck, what would it hurt?

 

[Zack1978]

The seafoam is in the tank already, but it is not helping so far. The strange thing is the one minute it is working fine then the next it is running crappy again? It also does not matter if the truck is warm or cold. It almost seems to do better when it is cold. It seems that when it warms up is when it gets worse. Any other ideas?


Thanks,
Zack

 

[Zack1978]

OK now the problem seems like it gets worse when the truck warms up. When cold it idles perfectly, then gets worse as it gets warmer.


Zack

 

[Jukelemon]

Year?

 

[cedarbarn]

The shop feels that the carb is gummed up and clogged up and that it needs to be rebuilt.

Zack

Rebuild the carb.

Check out this thread on TTR...

Rod is working on his truck and has pics of the goo that came out of the carb...

http://www.toyotatrailriders.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10735#post10735

 

[Zack1978]

Year?

1979