Help 87 pick up won't start

[toyota-87]

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Hello, please advise…

1987 Toyota 22R Pick Up Issue

The truck had been sitting for 3 years after it died from the timing chain rubbing through the timing chain cover & the engine blowing a head gasket & momentarily seized (sprayed wd40 in the block after I removed the head & the next day manually turned over w/o a problem)… fast forward 3 years… I had the head machined, new timing chain & cover, new gaskets, drained gas tank, new fuel filter, distributor cap, wires and put it all back together. Went to fire it up, turned over fine, noticed there was no gas getting to carb so replaced fuel pump. Gas is now getting to carb and it was popping and seemed like it wanted to start but didn’t. The oil dip stick shot out like a bottle rocket so I read the book a little more, took apart the oil pressure relief valve and checked if I had left any vacuum hoses off to the choke (I also have a 1988 22R truck to reference) noticed a couple left off & a couple on the wrong connection. Double checked the hoses and tried firing it up again… still acts like it wanted to start but just won’t, seems as though the oil pressure is fine now, at least the dip stick isn’t blowing off…I’d hate to give up now, any suggestions or direction ?? Thanks Kirk

[Billy_The_kid29]

maybe yr hoses brother? try boosting it.sounds like a friends car if it gets wet over night,it will not start.It does that popping thing.the battery dies from trying to restart it.Boosts it and off it goes
if he fixes his car first I will inform u of his problem.If not can you tell Me what it was so I can tell him?

[GregoryM]

Double check cam timing and distributor phasing relative to the cam. It must be correct or you'll be buying a set of valves. BTW, the oil pressure relief valve would have no relationship to your stated symptoms. Good luck.

[76toyota]

It's your timing. The timing is off and that is why it pops. You can rotate the dist to get into time_if the chain was put on correctly. If the timing is off it can cause extremly high pressures in the block which caused your dipstick to come out.