NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
Engine & cooling
1988 Toyota Pickup Engine problems
Owners have filed 4 complaints about the 1988 Toyota Pickup's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 57% of all its complaints, most recently on September 8, 2001. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
- Complaints
- 4
- Recalls
- 0
- Crashes
- 0
- Fires
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
Engine complaints
Factory defective engine block. Engine block cracked internaly causing the drivers side cylinder head gasket to blow . Forced oil into the raidior and out onto the breaking system on drivers side only. This happened at 4:30pm while slowing on a turn to stop at a fairly nbusy intersection. Causing the vehicle to spin out due to loss of breaking control. I have also been trying to get the head gasket issue taken care of since 3-30-99. I have never recived a recall or extended warrenty notice. My mechnic told me that...
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I had a recalled engine. When I contacted carson city toyota "ed" told me that I missed the recall by 3 days. Since "ed" has told me that in all the toyotas frought in for head gasket notices he had only seen 2, all the rest are factory defective blocks. A desing problem in casting.
Toyota had a special service campaign for blown head gaskets. *Ak
Replaced loos eground wire connecting to engine cylinder head from wiring harness. *Ak
Toyota Pickup engine complaints by year
Pickup engine problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data