JHunter
08-09-2007, 09:43 AM
Ok, I got a 1988 FJ-62. 3F motor, Fuel injected auto.
Been sitting for close to 2.5 years. I was able to get out and start it up for atleast 20 minutes every 6 months or so.
I finally get in to a place (had money) to where I could afford to work on it. I throw some new rubber on it, drop in a new battery, and fire it up. Runs fine. I drive it to my shop, about 8 miles and park it. So for the next month or 2, I I start it up and drive it in and out of my shop. Maybe 1 or twice a week. I was tryign to avoid starting and running it until I could get in and change the fluids. I but I noticed that last 4 or 5 times I started it, it was gettign harder and harder to start. And when it did, it ran like shit.
I get backed into a corner and leave for about 2 months. (Another project came up I had to work on so it had to sit again, atleast now its my shop not rotting out back and being used as a dman ladder for my cat to the roof)
Wont run. I can it to start... but wont run. if I throw down the starting fluid, it will run on that, then die.
I have put in new plugs, new filter and yes, drained and put in new gas. The gas that was in it, was less than 8 months old.
My thought is, the tank. I know there is a pre-filter on the pump in the tank, I am thinking thats fouled up. The pump is working, it is getting fuel to the motor so I am not inlcined to think the the pump. Electric fuel pumps usually do or dont work, that dont kinda.... When I turn the key, it fires, it coughs, and for split second, ir runs, then fades out, like its out of fuel. I have dont his over, and over, so fuel is moveing...just not enough to get to idle.
But before I drop the tank, could there be anything else I should look at first before I do? Any ideas?
Thanks.
Been sitting for close to 2.5 years. I was able to get out and start it up for atleast 20 minutes every 6 months or so.
I finally get in to a place (had money) to where I could afford to work on it. I throw some new rubber on it, drop in a new battery, and fire it up. Runs fine. I drive it to my shop, about 8 miles and park it. So for the next month or 2, I I start it up and drive it in and out of my shop. Maybe 1 or twice a week. I was tryign to avoid starting and running it until I could get in and change the fluids. I but I noticed that last 4 or 5 times I started it, it was gettign harder and harder to start. And when it did, it ran like shit.
I get backed into a corner and leave for about 2 months. (Another project came up I had to work on so it had to sit again, atleast now its my shop not rotting out back and being used as a dman ladder for my cat to the roof)
Wont run. I can it to start... but wont run. if I throw down the starting fluid, it will run on that, then die.
I have put in new plugs, new filter and yes, drained and put in new gas. The gas that was in it, was less than 8 months old.
My thought is, the tank. I know there is a pre-filter on the pump in the tank, I am thinking thats fouled up. The pump is working, it is getting fuel to the motor so I am not inlcined to think the the pump. Electric fuel pumps usually do or dont work, that dont kinda.... When I turn the key, it fires, it coughs, and for split second, ir runs, then fades out, like its out of fuel. I have dont his over, and over, so fuel is moveing...just not enough to get to idle.
But before I drop the tank, could there be anything else I should look at first before I do? Any ideas?
Thanks.