Recent content by BBAINUTAH

Well as embarrassing as this is to say, I had the #2 and #4 plug wires crossed:bash: In my defense, thats how the chilton book showed it, still pretty bad! IT RUNS PERFECT NOW!!:party: Thanks again for your help GonOvr!

The prev owner doesn't know any more than the engine was replaced with a 93. Inside of the 1990 dist. looks quite a bit different than the 93. I'll retrace my steps (on the timing) and if all else fails, I have access to a 1995 with a blow engine, I may take the dist. off of it and give it a...

When I said mine is a 1990, I ment the 4runner is and all of the repairs to engine have been done based on a 1990 engine. The engine is a 1993.

when I installed the distributor I held my finger over the #1 cyl. spark plug hole while the engine was cranked. I felt the compression "puff", then used a wrench to get (fine adjust) the mark on the pully to match up with the 0 on the engine plate. Aligned the marks on the dist. as per my...

History: I bought this 1990 4runner with a known start problem. The report was that it would run fine, then after you shut it off and attempted to start it later, it would crank but not start. I bought it cheap and am trying to fix it. As I drove it home, it died after a mile. Long story short...