1978 Classic Toyota Hiace Campervan

awesome! It looks pretty straight in the pics. Is it a 1.6 or 2.0?

Here's mine:

Thanks for the positive comments folks.
Retromat, I read your build thread, sure I'll have to reference it in the future for help. Mine is a 2.0 seems quite powerful, especially compared to the old vw I had!

Unfortunately it has a cutting out problem. Apparently its been doing it for a long time, runs great for an hour or so then cuts out and won't start for 5min, then it is fine again. I replaced some electrical parts but took it to the garage and the mechanic says it has low compression in number 2 cylinder. Says it could be a stuck valve or a piston ring! I was thinking surely if it was either of these then it wouldn't be running that well all this time?
Anyone have any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Firstly I was going to remove the breathers from the rocker cover and put then into a bottle because it sounds like it is choking itself.

Thanks jpsmit, yes I was thinking it sounded like it could be a fuel pump problem until the mechanic told me the compression was low and a lot of back pressure when he took the oil cap off.

Although I spoke with the previous owner and she said it has been doing this for a very long time and they had been all round europe with it like this. I was thinking if it was a serious problem then surely it wouldn't of lasted this long and would have trouble starting?

So far Ive replaced the coil & ballast resistor thinking it was an electrical problem. I also ran it with the fuel cap off because it was building up a lot of pressure but that didn't work either.
Theres two breathers on the rocker cover, one goes to the inlet manifold and one goes to the carburettor. Was going to get a Y piece connector and put them into an oil catcher bottle like the rally cars use and see if this works.

Not been on here for a wee while. Still having problems with it cutting out now and then.

I put it into the local garage to try and source the fault.
They done a compression test and turns out the engine is fine, spark is also fine.
Turns out it is fuel starvation, when it cuts out there is no fuel in the sight glass on the side of the Carb.
They tested the fuel lift pump which is fine.
They put a vacuum gauge in line to the pump and it showed a high vacuum. They fuel lines were then blown back with an airline and it ran fine for 15miles.

When I picked it up it cut out again after 3miles. I thought it might be because the fuel was so low and maybe dirt in the tank. Yesterday we dropped the fuel tank and flushed it out (it looked very clean inside though with no sludge or dirt). Also replaced the inline fuel filter. It ran fine last night, done about 30+miles but I have a feeling its not fixed.

Anyone got any other ideas?
I'm thinking about changing the fuel cap (although I ran it without one and it still cut out).
There is a one way valve which looks like its on a breather pipe coming off the tank, might replace that also.

Found some old receipts from 3years ago for the carb being refurbished and one saying there was a fuel starvation fault so its obviously been an ongoing problem for a long time.

If the problem is getting to you the answer is sell it to me

Nice
I would fit a new fuel line and filters and see how it goes, I had a similar problem with a Range rover replaced the whole line with a plastic one and it was fine, never found any fault with the line though?

Yup, replace fuel line, espcially all rubber elements...

I had the same issue a while back with something else , but there was a piece if flat debris metal rom the fueltank inside the fuelline acting as a valve and closing of the fuelline. Took me months to find. But on the other side , everything is new underneat...

Few adventures this weekend



Was very comfy in here with the memory foam mattress