I have a 1982 Toyota Longbed with about 350K miles. Most reliable vehicle I've ever owned. The problem is that is that the truck mysteriously dies or cuts out for a second after I've been driving about five minutes, and while the truck is still warming up. If I'm driving along, it's only for a second or two, and it will kick in again as I drive, and then be fine after that once it fully warms up. If I'm braking or stopped when it happens, the truck will stall, and I will have to start it again, and it might take four or five tries. If I stop somewhere for a hour and the truck cools down a bit, it will likely do the same thing again at the same point of warming up to full operating speed. Any ideas?
Cut-Out Mystery
May 29, 2005
2 Replies
wow...I'd say you got your moneys worth from that truck!!
I had an 84 Corolla with a similar problem. I never did get it fixed, it had ~300000 km when I got rid of it. But I remember talking to a mechanic about it once and he thought it was likely the coil...it never did get so bad that I felt the need to replace it. You could just sense the miss but it always happened just before reaching normal temperature.
Fair & Balanced Trebor,
FWIW, I had a somewhat similar problem with my 1990 4Runner V6 3.0L that I posted about here a while back. The vehicle would stall regardless of the outside air or engine temperature and then it would take 3 to 5 minutes before it would restart. It usually happened upon deceleration, such as slowing down for a light or making a turn. After many visits to various mechanics in my desperation to find "someone" who could fix it, my local Toyota dealer wound up replacing the temperature or coolant sensor (don't remember which, could be one and the same) and it has been running great ever since. It took them a couple of tries to get to that point and even then it was only after they escalated the problem to their service manager.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
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