Hey, I recently bought a 5 speed 2.2l 1995 Celica with 170k miles, and 3 times now it's died on me. It will run great for a while and then start stalling and shut off on the road, and when I tested for spark I got nothing. the first time it happened I bought a new distributor cap, rotor, and ignition coil the next morning, and it ran great for the day. The next night it was idling in a parking lot and started misfiring and shut off again, lost spark and sat overnight. I went and bought a brand new distributor, spark plugs, and wires. It ran for a day and then shut off one more time. I got it towed home and it started back up again but it's intermittently misfiring on one cylinder now.
No check engine light, no other issues as far as i'm aware, other than a wheel bearing. What do you think?
Unfortunately you have the 2.2 l engine which has a different fuel injection system and the 1.8 which is relatively bulletproof. I've seen those things go bonkers on the 2.2's where a bunch of the fuel injection system just starts breaking down. But of course try The logical things first like test the battery and alternator and check all the wiring to make sure nothing's corroded from the battery terminals to all the electrical connections take them apart look for green corrosion you're going to clean off
Thank you for the reply, Scotty. Based on how after the car died I wouldnt get spark until I replaced the distributor internals, I haven't even checked fuel injection. It has a brand new battery and the alternator is working fine. The engine seems to misfire quite often, especially revved up to ~3000 rpm, it misses almost every time. At idle it misses irregularly and its only strong misfires once the engine is warmed up. I've checked everything in the hayne's manual, ignition timing, vacuum, spark plugs, etc. and I'm still lost.
Seems like I just need to be looking into the misfire for now but I can't figure it out.