Has the battery gone bad or is gasoline now evaporating?

DEAR CAR TALK: I have a 1986 Toyota twowheel-drive pickup with a four-speed manual transmission, no power steering and a carburetor.

It requires cranking for at least two minutes before it will fifire up.

The battery often needs to be jumped.

But after starting, it runs fifine. Any idea what else could be causing the need to crank the engine so much? CAR TALK: If the battery is weak, or your starter motor is drawing too much current, then maybe the engine just isn’t cranking fast enough to start.

That could explain why it’ll crank for two minutes without starting, and then start up after you give it a jump from a healthy battery.

So don’t crank it fifirst with your existing battery.

Tr y j u mp - s t a r t i n g t h e engine right away next time, and see what happens.

If you still can’t get the truck to start, then the gasoline probably is evaporating. It’s likely leaking out of the flfloat chamber into the intake manifold, and evaporating overnight while you’re dreaming of 2017 Tundras.

Then, when you try to start it the next day, there’s no fuel left in the reservoir.

So the mechanical fuel pump has to draw fuel all the way from the gas tank at the back of the truck.

That takes a while. Especially with the starter motor turning the engine at 100 rpm (versus 1,000 rpm when the engine is idling).

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