E10 corolla, need help as confused

Smehz

I have a 96 E10 corolla, 1.3 petrol, 4efe engine.
One day The car engine sound like it was a strimer with the sound it was giving and major loss in power,
I thought I lost a cylinder so I changed sparkplugs cause they look like they were never changed, and changed one of the coil distributor leads that was broken and still sounds like a strimmer/stuttering.

Anyone any idea as to what it could be?

Jimmy Dags

Scan the ecu computer for codes.

Smehz

Jimmy Dags wrote: »

Scan the ecu computer for codes.

I don't have any diagnostic equipment, kinda why came here see if anyone knew 😂

EPAndlee

You could do a self diagnostic test with those.

Toyotafanboi

At the very least change all the plug leads. How did you even source one new lead?

It could easily be one of the other leads or depending on the exact 4efe, some had a mechanical distributor and coil and some had an electronic coil pack. Change whatever yours has too.

Smehz

EPAndlee wrote: »

You could do a self diagnostic test with those.

How do I go about doing this?

Smehz

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

At the very least change all the plug leads. How did you even source one new lead?

It could easily be one of the other leads or depending on the exact 4efe, some had a mechanical distributor and coil and some had an electronic coil pack. Change whatever yours has too.

I got the lead (wasn't brand new, second hand) from a starlet which had the exact same kind of distributor on it, 1st gen 4efe engine.

Jimmy Dags

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

At the very least change all the plug leads. How did you even source one new lead?

It could easily be one of the other leads or depending on the exact 4efe, some had a mechanical distributor and coil and some had an electronic coil pack. Change whatever yours has too.

The op never said that they bought a single lead, just that they fitted one.

JohnBoy26

Smehz wrote: »

I got the lead (wasn't brand new, second hand) from a starlet which had the exact same kind of distributor on it, 1st gen 4efe engine.

Get a new set.

JohnBoy26

Jimmy Dags wrote: »

Scan the ecu computer for codes.

On a 1992-1997 corolla? I know they have an ecu but to get a scanner that will plug in will be difficult and probably futile as there is a high chance of nothing being stored on one of these.

EPAndlee

Warm it up first then you sit in the car and get another person to use a bit of speaker wire or the likes to join te1 and e1 on the diagnostic port with the ignition off. You turn the ignition on and engine management light will flash if there's a code

For example the engine management light will go like this - flash, flash *pause* flash, flash, flash, flash

That would be code 24

Leonard Hofstadter

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

On a 1992-1997 corolla? I know they have an ecu but to get a scanner that will plug in will be difficult and probably futile as there is a high chance of nothing being stored on one of these.

Indeed, a car from that era would only be OBD1 at best. How many garages would have diagnostic equipment that could handle that, bearing in mind that OBD2 had been around more or less since the start of this millennium. I think OBD1 (if that vintage Corolla even has it) varies between manufacturer as well whereas the DTCs are of course all the same for a car with OBD2. Early cars with MILs just stored that there was a fault somewhere, not where the actual problem was.

joujoujou

There's no need for any diagnostic equipment (apart from a piece of wire) to read code(s) on corolla of that vintage.

http://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/toyota/1.6L/how-to-retrieve-trouble-codes-1