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LadyinWaiting Forum Newbie Posts 2 |
05-21-12 09:16 AM - Post#2228188
Okay! First off Hi everyone! This is my first time on here. And I have a ... wierd situation with my chevy engine. We just bought a 92 Toyota Pickup that a previous owner (2 owners ago) put a chevy 305 small block in. I have no idea what year the actual engine is (I am assuming its somewhere in the range of this forum). And the TRUCK has just over 100,000 miles on it, though I'm not sure what the actual engine has. After we got the truck, less than 100 miles worth of driving, it started overheating and smoke was coming out of the engine. A mechanic friend suggested changing out the head gasket and thermostat. Which we did. Well, actually my husband and a bunch of his guy friends (including the mechanic) did. The day they finished putting it back together we had it hauled to Wyoming from Arizona because we were moving. So now that you have a brief history, here's the problem. When we parked it back in December to await the headgasket getting fixed, it had just over half a tank of gas in it. By the time it got fixed, after all the little starts and stops to move it or check things, it said it had just under half a tank. So after it was fixed and my husband took it out for a test drive, they had barely gotten back to the house when it started sputtering and then died and wouldn't start again. They couldn't see how it possibly could have used a half a tank since it was only a 10 minute drive, but figured that you never know and so added 5 gallons of gas. It started right up and we thought how odd that was considering the gas guage still read close to half a tank. Then after driving it for about 10-15 more minutes to get it up on the dolly we were using to haul it, it sputtered and died AGAIN and wouldn't restart. Yesterday it happened for a 3rd time! We put in what SHOULD have been sufficient gas to at least get to the gas station, got just down the road and it started sputtering, and just barely managed to make it back home in time. So we put 5 more gallons into it last night, and this morning when my husband took it down the road to get to a gas station, he had to call to get a ride because he said it started shaking when he got to 40 mph and then sputtered and died. And now it is on the side of the road less than 5 miles from our house. There are no visible gas leaks. He has been playing with the timing ever since they fixed the head gasket. And it does backfire some but not excessively. Please tell me someone out there can help! What is wrong with the truck? |
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drifterdude Frequent Contributor Posts 1282 |
05-21-12 09:37 AM - Post#2228196
TBI or carb on the motor? electric or manual fuel pump? New or old fuel filter?
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Vermontboy Contributor Posts 110 |
05-21-12 09:46 AM - Post#2228199
A friend had a Toyota pickup that somehow got a quarter size slug in the gas tank. Suction from the pump would pull the slug over the discharge hole and the engine would quit. Wait 5 minutes and it would start and run fine for a couple of miles. Hard to find...
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LadyinWaiting Forum Newbie Posts 2 |
05-21-12 09:51 AM - Post#2228201
drifter dude. I don't know the answer to any of those. I will have to get back to you when I can ask my husband which should be soon. And a slug like...a slug? The yellowish gooey things that look like snails with no shells? |
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markss Forum Newbie Posts 67 |
05-21-12 10:07 AM - Post#2228206
LIW, lol, I think he means a round metal piece like a knockout from a panel or an electrical box.  Mark
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strictlygm Forum Newbie Posts 92 |
05-23-12 09:31 PM - Post#2229169
Wow, a Chevy motor in a Toyota truck, no wonder it doesn't want to run I would imagine that it would probably be carburated and not Throttle body injected due to the ammount of work and wiring to make it right, but I could be wrong. Is there any way you could take an under the hood picture of the motor and post it on here? With the air cleaner off to see what its got. From the info so far, it sounds like a fuel issue.
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JaVeRo Member Posts 280 |
05-24-12 05:34 AM - Post#2229211
I would start out by draining the tank to see how much fuel is actually in it and also, how much water is in the fuel. Then I would put fresh fuel in it, change the fuel filter, and go from there. James
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ckjurk Forum Newbie Posts 45 |
05-24-12 07:13 PM - Post#2229461
My opinion, it sounds like your pickup in your fuel tank is not long enough, when the engine swap was done, they had to either bypass the fuel pump or put in a regulator.
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