Hi, have been working on this car off and on for the last few weeks. I was driving and it just lost power put it in neutral and and just spit and sputtered and died. Call Toyota service manager, and said it may be a coolant temp. sensor, changed that no luck, also changed fuel pump, it would run for a few seconds and die again. Looked at the old coil pack and could see a split in the resin and where it had been arking, so put in a new pack, fired right up, took it out for about 1 mile and started to smell somthing electrical, pulled it in the shop and saw smoke coming up out from under the hood, hurried up and popped the hood open, could not see any thing burning, figured it was the new pack, pulled that one out and replaced it with a better one, and now it just turns over no fire, nothing, pulled a plug out to see for sure. Could it possibly be the ignition module thats mounted to the fender? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you kindly.

kitch428

That's right! Live and learn. You can't replace experience for all the tea in China.
Thought that would git-er-dun. Well, should run like a fine oiled machine for a long time to come.
Did they recommend you a timing belt, or have you already done that.
A little maintenance on these cars goes a long way. Hundreds of thousands of miles.

scooter1955

Thats going to be next on the agenda, don't pass our on me But do you think I shoud try that myself

TxGreaseMonkey

Have the dealer replace the timing belt.

kitch428

Let the pro's do that one. More to it than meets the eye.

scooter1955

Your right, learned some lessons here. So, I went to pick the car up this morning and guess what? It would not start, so they pushed it back in and did some checking and found out it was the EFI relay, glad that happend there. Anyway I could just imagine what would of happened if I would have changed out the dist. and it wouldn't start, TOO THE MOON ALICE, TO THE MOON. They also showed me why it wouldn't run after I put the condenser in, I forgot to keep the airgap distance and the blade on the shaft hit hit the sensor and broke both of them, told them that make's me feel like a dolt, but he said don't be to hard on yourself that they have had mechanics do the same thing. Soo all in all about $450.00 total, not counting the money for parts and the time I thru at it. So everyone out there who reads this I hope it gives some insight as to what can happen if you don't have the equipment or the total understanding of the compexity of todays cars. Thank you gentleman, may see you on here again.