84 sundowner now in arlington P-A-P :(

yeah whats the news? the weathers been awesome so you cant use that as an excuse to not work on it.

haha the weather

sorry guys...comp been screwin up..
yes we figured it out!!!
last sat. was workin on truck started messin with everythin and did compression check and all that...
since i still had some new parts that came with ruck we decided to replace them

ne ways...everything came down to the fuel filter!!! haha such a simple little thing..but atleast its fixed

compression from 1-4 read.....172-128-128-93
im not likin it at all but the truck is runnin good right now.
i am now able to go over 80mph and am able to go up almost any hill...havent found one i cant yet!!
but for it still bein the original engine and only havin bout 170k miles...i dont think thats bad at all

I figured that a filter would take care of it.

Maybe the thing was as old as the truck. . . 26 years. . . they don't last forever.

I would go back an redo those compression tests.

93 psi would generate a miss. . . 120 is usually a minimum. . .maybe the gauge wasn't sealing correctly.

And 172 seems a little out of line in comparison to the 130's.

Not questioning your results. . . but from your description of how well the truck runs. . . if those numbers were correct, . . .

It wouldn't idle evenly.

welcome for another newbie PNW. glad you got it runnin, You can always throw a can of restore at it. It did wonders for an ol courier of mine back a bunch of years.

ya i will get him to do another compression check...thats kinda wat i was thinkin too...the first number way off from the rest, and the truck does run really good...



to using restore.....i wont....i have heard waaaay to many bad stories of usin any of that kind of stuff and dont wanna even test it...

I totally understand your reservations. I worked for an excavation company that ran it in all of their toyotas 6 of them from 150,000 miles on and when I moved they all had over 300,000 smoke free miles. Im a big believer in good used motors when you can find one. This stuff is of course a band aid too keep it on the road until you can make professional repairs. I hope your gauge was leaking!

lol...all toyotas run 300k miles plus unless u dont put oil in them....my first car was a toyota...i loved it...stupid mistake i took it in and got oil change....they forgot to put plug back in...and i didnt think to look....car died :'(

LOL these guys where ultimate Rednecks. changed the oil every year or 50,000 miles which ever came first. Image the nastiest rig you have ever seen and multiply it by 10. LOL

hahahaha nice....nothin wrong with a redneck tho...i was raised by one...haha...