Q: My 1990 Toyota pick up 4WD will not run

asked by on October 19, 2016

The people I got it from put a new timing chain and timing gears and they said they timed it on the distributor. You can spray gas in the throttle body. It will run for a few minutes but it has no power it acts like it don't get enough gas to keep it running.. they say they put a new fuel pump but I don't know for sure. they say if they put a new fuel pump I don't know for sure. I had it running long enough one time and that's how I know it didn't have no power now it won't run at all.

My car has 189 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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