97 tacoma hard miss in cold weather

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- egad
  
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20 years ago

Sun, Feb 1, 2004 6:23 PM

I have a 97 tacoma with 117,000 miles. When the weather gets really cold or cold and wet it develops a random hard miss. It will run fine and randomly (maybe every 5 highway miles) it will miss so hard the engine sometimes goes completely dead for a second then restarts (It's a 5 speed so it roll starts itself). I have changed the usual things (plugs, wires, fuel filter). As well it has a new O2 sensor and relatively new timing belt. In the summer months and when its not missing it runs great. Any suggestion?

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- Howard Epstein
  
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20 years ago

Wed, Feb 4, 2004 5:42 PM

You did not specify if its a 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder engine although you say you have a timing belt versus a chain which would make it a 4 cylinder engine. Sounds like a electrical issue which could be due to either a hairline fracture in the distributor cap which only happens in cold weather or an intermittent coil pickup in the distributor. I would try replacing both.

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Howard Epste> I have a 97 tacoma with 117,000 miles. When the weather gets really cold or

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