Recent content by BillB

Add yet another to the list. My 2003 4runner SR5 has the head gasket leak on the left cylinder bank. We bought the car about 2 months ago with 127,500 miles on it. It drove great and was in good physical condition. It had no starting problems that day. The next day it showed its problems...

My wife and I took it on a 3 day 600 mile trip to the Texas Hill Country. It kept acting up with rough starts after it sat a while. I finally gave in and took it to a local independent auto repair shop. Their diagnosis is that the head gasket on the left side is leaking as has been reported...

Bamma, I changed the plugs a couple of weeks ago. While I am not certain, the connector to the No. 4 may have not been seated properly as I was able to push it in a little and it felt like the "lock" clicked. For all, this 4runner has about 128,500 miles on it. I forgot this in the original...

In my continuing saga to get the 2003 4runner, I bought used, working right, I have gotten past some problems and continue with starting problems. When the vehicle is started it sometimes just starts right up and sometimes it runs rough until I run it up to about 2000 RPM and let it go back to...

Bossman, thanks for the suggestions. I do have a fuel pressure gauge. The problem is reminiscent of a problem with a past vehicle that had fuel pressure problems.

We just bought a used 2003 T4R with 127,000 miles on it as we need a vehicle that can access rough terrain better than our Accord or Malibu. We took it on a 500 mile round trip to our new property and got a number of starting issues. One was the infamous CEL with PO306 code. Other times it...