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Ok, I found in the extended repair manual a description of how to check trouble codes but my problem is that my CEL isn't sticky. Typically, once a check engine light is on, it stays on regardless of if you stop and restart the engine. Mine never goes on when idling, right after starting the...

I took my 91 runner on a 350mi trip up north this week. It handled everything fine all the way there but the morning after I arrived (cold morning), my check engine light went on. I stopped the car and killed the engine. Restarted and the light disappeared. It then re-lit a minute or two later...

Well I'm not very technologically knowledgeable but I have an identical truck and I get about 15-16mpg city. I just got the truck and haven't taken it on a long road trip so I don't know what the freeway milage might be. I suspect you could be running richer than you think. When was the last...

Long time listener, first time caller. :) Went to get brakes and smog done on my 91 runner at a shop yesterday and it failed smog. It failed on the Hydrocarbons and the Carbon Monoxide levels. I figure it must be running a bit rich. They quoted me 130 for a "smog-diagnostic" in which they...