'91 Pickup Won't Start When Warm

[ralphrr]

I have a '91 Toyota Pickup (22RE engine) that starts fine when it has been sitting and is cold, but after I drive it and it is warmed up and park it, when I try to restart it, the solenoid just clicks. Whacking the starter doesn't help anything. If I get a jumper cable on it from another car that is running, it will often crank fine and starts, but even that doesn't always work until it cools down. I have replaced the battery, the starter (twice), and the cable from the battery to the starter, and the ground cable, but none of these attempts fixed it. There is a dash gage with the alternator charge, and it always runs in the high part of the good zone, so I think I'm keeping my batter charged, and as I said, it works fine when the car is cold. If it were the other way around and I couldn't get it started when it was cold, I'd be stuck at home instead of somewhere else and that wouldn't be so bad...

Any ideas? Starter relay, ignition switch, alternator cable...

Thanks for any help you can give.

[somick]

Check out CTS - coolant temperature sensor. It may send incorrect signal to CPU about the coolant temperature.

Good luck,

Sam

[ralphrr]

Would the CTS problem allow the solenoid to click, but not engage the starter motor? And why does it override that issue if I jump it from another car?

[somick]

Originally Posted by ralphrr

Would the CTS problem allow the solenoid to click, but not engage the starter motor? And why does it override that issue if I jump it from another car?

I am not 100% sure but I would say "yes": CPU does not give correct commands to injectors to fire up.

Try to find the correct procedure for CTS testing. As far as I know the hotter the engine the lower the sensor's resistance.

You need to find a manual for your engine.


Sam

[Brian R.]

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[vin brown]

Originally Posted by ralphrr

I have a '91 Toyota Pickup (22RE engine) that starts fine when it has been sitting and is cold, but after I drive it and it is warmed up and park it, when I try to restart it, the solenoid just clicks. Whacking the starter doesn't help anything. If I get a jumper cable on it from another car that is running, it will often crank fine and starts, but even that doesn't always work until it cools down. I have replaced the battery, the starter (twice), and the cable from the battery to the starter, and the ground cable, but none of these attempts fixed it. There is a dash gage with the alternator charge, and it always runs in the high part of the good zone, so I think I'm keeping my batter charged, and as I said, it works fine when the car is cold. If it were the other way around and I couldn't get it started when it was cold, I'd be stuck at home instead of somewhere else and that wouldn't be so bad...

Any ideas? Starter relay, ignition switch, alternator cable.

Thanks for any help you can give.

your starter field coil probly worn repace the starter should take care of the problem

[nicks84]

Originally Posted by vin brown

your starter field coil probly worn repace the starter should take care of the problem

My friends truck is doing the same thing. Im not so sure its a heat problem, because it does this in the morn, night, hot, cold, totally intermitent. She has replaced her starter, had the cabling replaced, and new batt. She has an alarm on the truck. The mech told her he thought it was alarm related. He disconected it, or so she said he did (maybe from the fuse box or something, because wires still ran to the batt). It was still acting up so she decided to take it back. Before she did, I personally disconnected the alarm fully. He could not get this thing to reprocate. He had the truck for a week and attempted to start throught the work day, and nothing, no issues. I assumed strangely, maybe he was right, it might have been the alarm because It quite having starting issues. A month later, Im driving this thing, stop and Wal-mart, and BOOM, leaves me stranded.

Anyone know what this might be ? Sounds Solenoid related to me.

I thought at 1st it was the solenoid. But then she replaced the starter. I only ASSUME he put a new solenoid on it though. Anyways, she took it back to him because it kept doing it. He could not get it to click. It always started for him. Anyways, I took the truck to walmart, after it had NOT done this for a mo.

[yotaguy2010]

i have a 86 toyota pickup that will crank but want stay running and it has no power ??

[fourwd1]

Originally Posted by ralphrr

Would the CTS problem allow the solenoid to click, but not engage the starter motor? And why does it override that issue if I jump it from another car?

I can't see any sensors that could go bad and prevent the starter from turning. The neutral start switch could do it, but since it is clicking

when I try to restart it, the solenoid just clicks.

, it rules that out.

[auto89]

I've had an '89 v6 pickup for 21 years. About a dozen times it has made the "click, click" sound and I hear a buzzing sound in the steering column. I panic, thinking I have a serious problem. I go through some superstitious motions (like taking it out of gear, turning the steering wheel (because it made a buzzing sound inside the column), etc.) and it starts like normal.

It's done it for 10-15 years. But, it's very intermittent. Maybe once every year or two.

I don't know if it's related to this topic. But, I've definitely experienced something that seems flakey. Some kind of electrical problem in the steering column. As you mentioned the clutch switch, I've had the impression it's related to that, or the ignition switch (due to the buzzing I hear inside the column, like an electrical short).

Anyway, just thought I'd add my 2 cents.