okay I'm sooo in need of help. I have a 1984 toyota pick up that died three weeks ago. Now I the truck has the 2.4L 22R four cyl. with the two barrel feed-back carb. I have nerrowed the problem down to being electrical, no spark. On 84 toyota the trucks came with igniters, whitch may I add are very expensive. I have replaced the igniter, coil, spark plug wires, the cap, rotor, and the coil pick-up, and still it doesn't run :confused: . the truck will crank all dayu lone but wont start. My friend who owns a shop took a look at it and found out that the coil is getting "no trigger", and told me that the igniter or the coil pick-up would cause this problem. so tha's it please any input would be helpful. (the only good thing about this is I'm now forced to drive my chevelle everyday.....darn :D

71,
How much more money are you going to waste ???? Any "good" automotive shop should be able to troubleshoot this probelm very easily and then replace ONLY the parts that are needed. It will take at least a scope to check out the ignition trigger signal, but an 84 is not that high tech. Everyone else here, including myself, can gues at what the problem is, and you can spend some more money throwing parts at it or ... you can find a good shop to fix it. Try this site's shop finder:
www.iatn.net (http://www.iatn.net)
Before I get flamed ... I am a true do it yourselfer ... rarely pay anyone to fix anything automotive or around the house but ... I am also willing admit when I dont have the tools or knowledge to fix something and it will be way cheaper to just pay someone. With modern vehicles, unless you are willing to spend a LOT of money on diagnostic tools, most of the time its way easier and cheaper to pay someone to fix it.
Just my opinion,

that's what a toyota mechanic told me to do also, but I wouldn't let a piece of metal and plastic beat me, so here's what was wrong. when it first died I bought a coil pick-up thinking that is is a cheap fix but then right after I put that in the truck still didn't run and so I went and got my buddy's tool that checks for signal going back to the igniter and It had none. so thinking this truck has never had the igniter replaced and these are prone to go bad randomly over age I bought a new igniter. while that was on it's way I had another one of my friends look at the truck and in the process he bent the coil pick-up trying to take the little plastic cover off that says "Do not remove" but we didn't notice that until later. the new igniter came and the truck still didn't run. so that was around the time I posted the question. Later I checked the coil pick-up clearance thinking that it is getting spark but no fire that has to be it,and found that the coil pick-up was bent. So after quicklly swapping out the new coil pick-up with the old the truck ran.

And for the record Bill you really don't know my dad and he was the one throwing parts at it, I told him I couldn't do much until school started and I could use a ingition scope but he wouldn't listen. but thanks for the time you put in to write back, I really appreciate it. graemlins/thumbsup.gif