1987 Toyota first start!

This is my friend's 1987 Toyota Tacoma pickup that we recently rebuilt the motor completely. It has a 22R-E, which is bored .040 over and its got straight pipe! Nothing else done to the engine- yet. Anyways we just got the engine in the truck the other day and got everything hooked up now, so we attempted to start it. It started and ran for about a second, but it just cut off again. Does anyone know why it might be doing this? And yes, that is a GTO Judge sitting there, the first one off the assembly line too! Plus it's for sale, $169,000!

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• toyota
• yota
• 1987
• tacoma
• truck
• pickup
• 22
• R-E
• straight
• pipe
• first
• start
• fuel
• injection
• rebuilt
• engine
• .040
• bored
• over
• wont
• run
• gto
• judge
• pontiac

[1337n00bkiller]

My dad had the same year truck when i was little, thing went for 300,000 before needing a new trans. only work we ever did to it. those engines will never die, enjoy it :D

[4x4maniac89]

@1337n00bkiller this truck has been giving my buddy more crap than any other vehicle ive ever seen!! the engines been good but at 420000 miles stuff goes bad i reckon haha

[TheSqearl]

thats not a tacoma.

[4x4maniac89]

its close enough to it theyre the same truck

[dragonmekill]

lol just rebuilt - no gas.. quite yet, i'm imagining

[4x4maniac89]

well it turned out to be a ground wire that was supposed to be connected to the valve cover but got connected somewhere else. it runs pretty good now but needs a new brake booster cuz the idles all funky when you push the brakes

[masivlyrics]

By the sound of your first tries . It was the starter . If not , then check the wires in the distributor cap (specifically the one to the starter or blaster coil) .

[4x4maniac89]

I would assume that was the case. I wasn't there when he got it running but that was how he explained it to me

[hurricanefloyd1]

I guess that means that the injectors were not getting enough juice because of the bad ground?

[4x4maniac89]

Nope the fuel pump was good, that was one of the first things we checked. Turned out it was a ground wire that was supposed to be attached to the intake manifold... it runs great now!