# 'Is This a Case of a Bad Battery, or Evaporating Gas?'

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-this-a-case-of-a-bad-battery-or-evaporating-gas/103551>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Tags:** toyota, pickup\
**Created:** [May 3, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-this-a-case-of-a-bad-battery-or-evaporating-gas/103551 "2017-05-03T05:22:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-this-a-case-of-a-bad-battery-or-evaporating-gas/103551/1 "2017-05-03T05:22:55Z")

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I read this column in the _Albuquerque Journal_ [http://www.cartalk.com/blogs/dear-car-talk/case-bad-battery-or-evaporating-gas](http://www.cartalk.com/blogs/dear-car-talk/case-bad-battery-or-evaporating-gas) recently and realized this guy may have the same problem I did (he has an '86, I an '87), a leaky accelerator pump, which I fixed with a simple (but trepidatious) carburetor rebuild.