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    so, my '94 toyota truck, 4 x 4, is now getting worse gas mileage than ever. as well as high pitched squealling only when the truck is NOT under load, stalling while slowing (exit ramp of highway, stop lights)- yet starts back up immediately, and now a subtle gas smell upon starting if i have the air or heat on...
    changed the head gasket a year and a half ago, head was milled. new starter, new clutch kit. new belts, adjusted properly. new radiator. new plugs and vacume hoses. is this a vacume problem? if so how do you find the leak???
    thanks for any suggestions or thoughts
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    Vacume leaks are very tough to find they make a vacume gage where you can hook up to some of the vacume lines but that always don't work. This problem to me don't sound like a vacume leak but I have been wrong before is check to see if your cat is stopped up that can make the truck stall but the gas smell I really can't say unless you have a bad injector that might be leaking by
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