No compression

85buggy · Sep 8, 2013

To make a long story short my Toyota buggy has 2 cylinders at 150 lbs.
1 at 30. 1 at 50. Oil in the radiator. Making lots of engine noise. After a friend
drove it. Without me knowing it. Which is the long part of the story. ? Is blown
head gasket ? Hopefully. Prolly going to do timing chain also while its down. Any
Other recommendations while we have it tore apart. Thx

grcthird · Sep 8, 2013

Head gasket, new head bolts, chain, sprockets, guides, run some Tide cloths washing powder through cooling system to clean out the oil, have the head checked out by the machine shop, new valve seals and guides,....or toss in a 2.7 and be done with it.

offroadr1 · Sep 9, 2013

Yep. What j said

BUG-E J · Sep 9, 2013

grcthird said:
Head gasket, new head bolts, chain, sprockets, guides, run some Tide cloths washing powder through cooling system to clean out the oil, have the head checked out by the machine shop, new valve seals and guides,....or toss in a 2.7 and be done with it.

Smartest thing I seen on HL today. :****:

85buggy · Sep 9, 2013

The 2.7 adaptable to propane

ibrokeit · Sep 9, 2013

85buggy said:
The 2.7 adaptable to propane

Why would ya want to run a fuel injected motor on pane?

85buggy · Sep 11, 2013

My buggy is very simple built no where really for the computer

grcthird · Sep 11, 2013

Pm buddy gambel and ask him about propane conversion. Shouldnt be hard to do.

BUG-E J · Sep 11, 2013

I looked into it one time. You will have to get a msd stand alone ignition and find a way to put a carb intake on it. If you don't have room for a pcm you need a bigger buggy. :****:

Pumpkin · Sep 11, 2013

I think Krackem's rig has a Fuel injected motor on propane. If I recall it still has the throttle plate on it. The mix is mounted to an adapter between butterfly valve and the air cleaner. It does not have a carb intake on it. But I could be wrong.

TBItoy · Sep 11, 2013

Re: Re: Re: No compression

Pumpkin said:
I think Krackem's rig has a Fuel injected motor on propane. If I recall it still has the throttle plate on it. The mix is mounted to an adapter between butterfly valve and the air cleaner. It does not have a carb intake on it. But I could be wrong.

Running a 22re on Propane is easy, just swap the distributor to a 22r unit and plumb the mixer into the intake tube before the throttle body.

2/3rz Tacoma motor is different, doesn't have a distributor so you gotta run a stand alone ignition setup to fire the coil packs.

No need for a carbed intake tho, just plumb the mixer in

grcthird · Sep 12, 2013

The early, 96 and 97, 2.4 has a distributor. I don't see why propane wouldn't work on them. Maybe some tweaking on the ecm tune?

bigjerm · Sep 12, 2013

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TBItoy said:
Running a 22re on Propane is easy, just swap the distributor to a 22r unit and plumb the mixer into the intake tube before the throttle body.

No need for a carbed intake tho, just plumb the mixer in

Yep the buggy I bought has a 22re on full propane. The propane goes in just past the air filter, right before the throttle. Engine runs pretty good even though the PO didn't hook up all the vacuum connections right. Thats my next fix

Sent from S3

dragr1 · Sep 12, 2013

ibrokeit said:
Why would ya want to run a fuel injected motor on pane?

Why would you not want to do that? Simplicity, no fuel pump, no sensors, almost no wiring, safer propane, propane doesn't go bad like gas when it sits, etc.

Technician · Sep 13, 2013

Ok so here's the short of it. To convert a 22re to propane you need to change the dizzy to a 22r. Change the ignighter to a 22r or Chevrolet. The reason for this is the RE dizzy does not have vacuum advance. So when you upgrade to a 2rz or 3rz there is no vacuum advance dizzy for either motor. So that is why you can't put pane on the newer motor.
Now to answer the why. Stubs put it best when he said cuz my turbo loves it.

alscott · Sep 16, 2013

Technician said:
Ok so here's the short of it. To convert a 22re to propane you need to change the dizzy to a 22r. Change the ignighter to a 22r or Chevrolet. The reason for this is the RE dizzy does not have vacuum advance. So when you upgrade to a 2rz or 3rz there is no vacuum advance dizzy for either motor. So that is why you can't put pane on the newer motor.
Now to answer the why. Stubs put it best when he said cuz my turbo loves it.

im runnin propane with the vacuum advance caped off so its same as havin an RE dizzy... works fine an always has plus if you run an electric lock off or just not even run a lock off then vacuum doesnt have a part in it

krackem · Sep 16, 2013

Best **** to clean ur coolin system is CLR ( calcium lime rust ) u get it at Lowes or the depot I clean radiators and any part that has calcium build up from water its flashemifyougotem