Got a 22RE engine (fuel injected of course)
Bout a month ago, truck started missing. Diagnosed problem. Was plug wire (abraded). Replaced wires, plugs, dist. Cap, and rotor. Great. Solved the miss and things are better than before. Right? Well, not quite. Upon commute to work it started cutting out periodically like the ignition switch was turning off then on very quickly. Checked wires again, everything looked fine. Started happening more often (a dozen times in a 12 mile range). OK, sounds like a pick-up coil (actually I figured it was merely the wires becoming brittle and with moving them around during replacement of everything mentioned above, maybe IT needed replacement). After all, it is probably original making it 23 years old and the wires were pretty stiff.
Shelled out 90 bones for a new pick-up. Alright. This is certainly going to solve it. Thought it did for the first 3 or 4 miles. Then it's back to the same old cut-out pattern. It can occur many times in one mile or stay symptom free for several miles, but it always does it several times during each 12 mile commute to work. Never dies, just gets disconnected from life for a milliesecond and makes red engine light on dash illuminate briefly (if you blinked you would miss light coming on) but you definitely feel it.
I'm thinking it may be the wires from the pickup coil connection to the ignition coil. Just a few feet long but I did move them around when I did the whole tune up thing and they may be in poor shape and flex somewhat from the wind caused by the fan when driving.
Just to recap; Never had this problem before until after I tuned up engine with new plugs, wires, dist. Cap and rotor.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
t-craw
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 AT 7:45 PM
