Garagetuner1

My goal is to take care of this engine issues so I can head out at the end of October toward mountains of Oregon to see Diamond Peak mountain and to explore Williamette and Deschutte National forest and eventually end up in Crater Lake area. Thank you kindly everyone for every bits of informations shared. Any new ideas is welcome anytime. Will keep you guys posted with new pictures after the trip. I hope things will work out as plan. Regards, Garagetuner1

There's also a Toyota Mirage Rv. Although, there aren't many of them around, but there are out there, especially around Indiana and Chicago area. They are one of the shorter one and in my eyes the most unique looking one. I had posted a couple pictures of my Mirage which I had recently put 4000 miles driving from Columbus to Seattle. Check it out.

Hello, I was just at Yellowstone in the past week (Thursday and Friday). What a trip though, I knew my Rv couldn't go fast, so I took my time and enjoy two days around the Yellowstone; we were at the Grand Tetan before that and Rocky Mountain National park as well as many other parks before that on the way from Ohio. We had a grand time. The toughest test for the Toyota Mirage was when we passed Denver on I-70, at Idaho Spring I decided to take Route 40 over the Berthoud Pass and into Winterland heading toward the Rocky Mountain National Park and I was thinking that it was a short cut. Over the pass before Winterland, the elevation reach over 11,000ft. Tell you what....do not go there!!! Some of the turn I could only manage 20 MPH and my wife was scream you're going too fast. I had to frequently stop and let people passed by me. Just over the mountain, that was the longest 50 miles that I have ever driven in my entire life. On the other hand, the little RV passed it's toughest test and it didn't leave us stranded on the side of the mountain. I do have quite a few tools to do the work on the engine and some basic knowledge of mechanics. For now I'm just trying to recover from the 4000 miles trip I just made. Next month, I'm already planning a trip to the Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. I will try as much as I can to get this little RV to run better so the trip will be less ordeal. There's a lot of mountains to climb in Oregon. I am very much open to all suggestions and ideas of improving the perfomance on my RV. Thanks to all who have left the comments and suggest for me. You guys got me into thinking lots of ways to get myself into trouble with my....you know who (he! he! he!) Best Regards, Samay

I have been noticing that the engine missing intermittenly. That could be from low compression in one of the cylinder, as you have mentioned. I have not check the compression yet. I should do that first thing. I was also surprised by the oil consumtion of the engine. I had to add a quart of oil for every 400-500 hundred miles. There's no oil leak. How can a 86,000 miles engine burn that much of oil? I don't think a normal engine would burn that much, would it? In the very near future, Am I looking at a complete rebuilt engine here? Thanks

I have put my two kids inside and still this thing didn't go much faster than 50-55MPH on freeway. Next, I should get rid of the deadweight..(like the wife), LOL...just kidding! I guess I will start with a header and a new exhaust system to give it a better flow. Then I'll go into cams and headwork. For now, I'll just have to be patience. After all this RV had brought me always from Columbus, OH through many back roads and mountains of Colorado and Utah and Wyoming. I should be thankful that it didn't leave me stranded. Thanks for all your inputs. Cheers!

This RV has 22 RE engine. It's very reliable. Day after day, that starts up and slow but sure move me on the road. That's one thing I did not have to worry. Thanks God. My wife would have killed me if we got stuck in nowhere land. I did do the complete tune up before taking it on the road, but I guess with 4 cylinder and 4 speed I shouldn't expect much as far as get it up and go, but I would like to at least pass someone on the road. Oh, wait! I did pass someone in an old Corolla on my way through Kansas, but he must have been half asleep. As soon as he realized I passed him, he overtook me right away. You maybe right about having an exhaust leak; I did hear some hisses around the manifold, but I just didn't want to get into it since it would require removing the manifold and replacing the gasket. Are you sure, even after everything is working right, I can only go 60MPH....are you sure. Come on, give me hope here! How about Cam, intakes and exhaust header and free flowing exhaust system...will that help?

This RV has 22 RE engine. It's very reliable. Day after day, that starts up and slow but sure move me on the road. That's one thing I did not have to worry. Thanks God. My wife would have killed me if we got stuck in nowhere land. I did do the complete tune up before taking it on the road, but I guess with 4 cylinder and 4 speed I shouldn't expect much as far as get it up and go, but I would like to at least pass someone on the road. Oh, wait! I did pass someone in an old Corolla on my way through Kansas, but he must have been half asleep. As soon as he realized I passed him, he overtook me right away. You maybe right about having an exhaust leak; I did hear some hisses around the manifold, but I just didn't want to get into it since it would require removing the manifold and replacing the gasket. Are you sure, even after everything is working right, I can only go 60MPH....are you sure. Come on, give me hope here! How about Cam, intakes and exhaust header and free flowing exhaust system...will that help?

Hello all, I'm new here to the site. Had anyone own or familiar with a Toyota Mirage RV? I had recently bought a 85 Toyota Mirage RV. It only had 86,000 miles on it. It now had around 90,000 after I drove it from Columbus, OH to Seattle, WA. Just want to share a slow and long successfull roadtrip with my family across the country. I owned a couple of larger RV before, but this is my first Toyota Mirage RV, but I must say it's reliability is amazing. After driving almost 4000 miles across the country I had very little issues with the car, only problem I had was with an A/C line blew up in the middle of the trip which I gave up trying to repair it and concentrate on enjoying the trip. The only complain that I would have about this RV is the lack of power. For the whole trip I can only managed 55MPG on freeway and 25-35 on a sligh mountain incline. That was brutual. I just wasn't used to the small power from the 4 cyl. engine with 4 Sp Trans as compared to my previous V-8 powered RVs. This is something I would have to do something about later. In the beginning of the trip, after seeing the RV, I took a deep breath and my toolbox and took a leap of faith and went on the roads. All and all, this Toyota Mirage RV did its job by taking us family of four across the country through many mountains and national parks with incredible reliability. I completely trust this rig now. Now, if I can only do something with that performance....any suggestions???