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I pulled the timing belt cover and the timing belt was A ok ( which I kind of suspected since when I had it apart to do the head gasket it looked brand new) Since it wasn't the timing belt I turned to the ignition. When I took the distributor cap off and started poking around the ignitor basically ...

i bought this car as a fun little toy, even thought about making it into a quick little rally car, but I don't have the time to play with it now that I'm going back to school and working double shifts to pay for it. Here is what I have

1984 tercel 4wd wagon

169,ooo miles

auto

I have recently ...

due to the nature of the sudden, high -rpm death, I think it might be either the ECM or part of the ignitition system. I'll try to track it down tomorrow morning.

so, right after having had the intake an exhaust manifolds machined to eliminate a big vacuum leak, and having the carburator fuel mixture tuned ( by a real mechanic, not my moronic ass) my car has died. AGAIN. After parting with $357.00 for aforementioned work ( my very last $357 by the way) I ...

its a 4AC engine, and it was most likely rebuilt at some time in its life ( I'm simply guessing on this becuase when I took the head off the pistons had different casting patterns, which makes me assume at least one of them had been replaced) I'll try to take a video of the car tomorrow and post it ...

Well, I'm still trying to get my POS 84 Tercel running, and if I don't figure it out soon I'm actually going to have to take it to a mechanic. Here is what I have:
1984 Tercel 4WD wagon, automatic, 4AC engine, carbed

Here is what I have done

Head gasket, intake/exhaust gasket, timing, new vacuum ...

I'm not sure what he did, though I can't imagine he would have taken the head off to change the timing belt. I'm pretty sure it is a leakign head gasket simply due to the amount of water I'm losing. Also, there appears to be all kinds of crap in my coolant overflow tank, which is never good. i'm ...

I just bought an '84 Tercel 4WD for about $500. It was sitting for a month or so, but it was a daily driver before that. I towed it home and got it to start, but the previous owner replaced the timing belt but never re-timed it afterwards so it idles very high and runs very rich. I haven't re-timed ...