You are correct. This is not a diesel. I know I know, this is the non vw diesel section. Not looking to start a trend, but I could use some help pretty quickly.
This has been my daily driver while I have been gathering up and paying for all the parts for my Franken buildup. Last night I ran into problems.
Here is the low down:
1994 toyota compact pickup.
22RE 4-cyl. 5-spd.
This was a bare bones model. No A/C, Power steering, power brakes, etc..Nothin.
220,000 miles.
20,000 miles ago I had the head prof. rebuilt, new timing chain kit with all the accesories, timing chain cover, oil pump, water pump, radiator, hoses, HG kit with all the additional gaskets and such. New exhaust, front to back. New Battery, etc etc..
You get the idea. I had it done right so I would not have to be dicking around with it. Say in the middle of winter with a huge snow storm arriving in 24 hours :x
Thing has run like a top for the last 20K. I put about 75-100 miles a day on it. Almost all highway, 65-75MPH.
So last night I hop in it to head to work. My wife had just driven it home about 3 hours before. Turned the key-nothing. I could hear and feel the click of the starter engaging but not turning over.
I thought my wife may have left something on in the car and drained the Batt., but no. Seemed like I had juice. I hooked up a set of jumper cables and tried again. Click...same thing. Waited 10 min while reving up the other car. Tried again. Click.........slowly turning over. Stop and try again. Same deal, it fired up this time and ran rough for a min.
It was blowing a ton of white smoke out the exhaust pipe-stinking like anti-freeze. I also saw what looked like the same smoke coming out from under the heat shield on the exhaust manifold. This smoke stopped after about 1 min. It kept coming out the tail pipe though.
I checked the bottom of the oil cap. No milky oil. none on the dip stick either. I checked the coolant overflow tank, it was way low. I had noticed it low about a week ago and topped it, and the radiator off with fresh 50/50.
Since everything was still cold I popped to radiator cap. Whoosh, lots of preasurized air came out. No fluid spay though, it was low again. Idle started getting erratic once I removed the cap. Kept revving higher, slowing and revving higher. I shut it down.
When I filled it up the first time, I had noticed some coolant stains around the hose clamps. Thay appeared tight, but I retightened them. I am wondering if the coolant system was over preasurizing due to a HG leak. It sure looked like it was burning it.
I picked up a new Fel-Pro HG kit today after work. I am thinking I must have a blown HG.
I am dreading doing this swap. I had a friend do the other work the first time as I was at work 60-70 hours a week then.
I can only get the front half of my truck into my garage. The rest is filled with crap that is stored in there for the winter. It's gonna be a cold ***ty job with a snow storm coming down.
Is this one of those character building events that is supposed to make us better men? :x :lol:
Anyone have any good advice? I have the chiltons and can struggle through it, but would be glad to take any helpful hard earned knowledge that anyone cares to pass on. Any good hints or time savers?
I plan on starting at the crack of ass, at O dawn thirty sunday morning.
BBBRRRRRRR..................