Toyota Repair: Hard starting, toyota 4x4, retaining clip

Question
Hi Ted,  I have a 85 Toyota 4x4 with a 22r in it. Recently it has been getting harder and harder to start when cold. I will have to turn it over for 20 or 30 seconds while pumping the heck out of it.   once its running it runs without any problems and will even start right away untill it sits for 4 or 5 hours.  
  I have been reading this forum and trying all the tricks you have suggested to other people but still am having problems.
  Used carb clean and cleaned all linkages and blew dry with compressed air.
  The choke is working fine. it opens and closes automatically with the temp of the engine.
  I replaced the auxillary pump diaphram. Although it did not have a hole in it, it did look somewhat deformed and did not seem to have a full stroke. blew carb clean and air into the two ports inside the aux pump housing.    Still hard to start.
  I am noticing now that when i pump the throttle and look inside the carb that no gas is squirting into the intake. It is like this whether the truck is warm or cold. I would think all carbs work on the principal that you step on the throttle and gas squirts into the intake?
  Once the truck is running or has been run for a while it runs great.  Maybe the fuel pump is keeping pressure to the system to keep it going?
 Any help will be greatly appreciated and i will let you know how i made out.

Thanks  Onzle


Answer
It looks like the accelerator pump is not working, gas should come out of the nozzle when the accelerator is depressed, remove the carburetor top and check the accelerator pump plunger and also check the check ball on the bottom of the accelerator pump housing, there is a spring retaining clip, remove it and check the ball to see if it is stuck.