Topic: 1985 Toyota 4x4 Pickup

[slowboy]

need help...it seems my 22REC has dead spots when pressing gas pedal...while pressing on pedal it will start idling up, then stop, then starting idling up again then stop, etc...it doesn't want to gain any speed when I try to drive it...I don't think the timing is set right...I jumped the connector - then using timing light, tried to set timing at 5 degrees BTDC but turning distributor all of the way clockwise, it would not quite get to 5 degrees - it would go to about the middle of 5 degrees and zero mark-TDC... removed jumper and checked timing and it was at 10 BTDC...could the distributor be off a tooth or two maybe?...would the TPS prevent being able to set timing?...

[OVRAROK]

Tps is very important, if not critical to your timing, I would adjust tps per Toyota fsm

[Snowtoy]

If you are running out of range w/timing adjustment, whoever worked on it last may have not installed the distributor correctly, to check this, set the engine to 5*  dead center, pull the cap on the dist. and check where the rotor is at, it should look like this


If it isn't, pull the dist., point the rotor straight up, and insert the dist. with the bolt hole in the center of the alignment section in the dist., the rotor should rotate to the position in the picture.  If it doesn't, you could have a timing chain issue, i.e. it jumped a tooth, or wasn't installed correctly.

Do you know its service history, or why your cousin stopped driving it when he did?