Car won't start/ Tranny TOO ROUGH/ Notchy

[ClipseAPG]

Hey guys, my dsm hasn't been running for about a year now. After all is said and done, the car was torn apart for a clutch swap at the end of last summer and now I finally have come back from college to put the new clutch in ( CFDF clutch w/ PP) and get the tranny back in. I ended up replacing the alternator with the saturn clutch swap, doing the skateboard shifter cable mod, and almost replacing the stock fuel pump with a wally 255 only to put the stock one back in to not overrun my crappy ebay afpr on the 1200 mile drive down to my new home in florida. My problem is, 1, the car won't start! I changed the oil and am looking at the fouled plugs which i'll be replacing tomorrow. I don't know why it won't turn over, fuel/spark or could sitting for a year have caused it to seize or something? I smell gas under the hood and the motor turns over but won't fire so no spark maybe? Could the pistons/rings/ whatever have seized or something? I'm VERY stressed as my only way back to florida is driving and I'm supposed to be there in 4 days. Also, the transmission is VERY tough to shift. I bled the clutch properly but shifting is very hard, could the tranny gears/synchros have rusted since it had no oil for a year and have caused this? Or maybe the skateboard bearing mod was done improperly (aka i put the bearings in at an angle and not straight in which actually might have caused this? I could use all the help I can get and appreciate your help in advance!


EDIT: the fuel line to the filter had been disconnected to put in the wally and when i put the stocker back in, I didn't connect the line underneath the car so the car wasn't getting fuel. I connected the line and the DSM starts!

The transmission is still of concern to me as i haven't been able to get the car of jack stands because i'm troubleshooting my alternator belt/pulley/mounting because when I start the car it squeals and squeals not like it did before, but way worse (the belt smokes too). Also, the car seems to be heating up a lot! I mean I know it's hot out but I mean it heats up QUICK and I'm getting a small leak from the timing cover so i don't know if maybe the water pump is the issue which is causing the car to overheat and squeal? I know it might be the water inlet pipe o ring which could cause the small leak, what's the procedure to check that?

 

[gofer]

If your water pump is leaking onto the alternator belt that could be the cause for the squeal and smoke coming off of it. You might also make sure that the outside pulley on the water pump isn't on backwards, this would cause an alignment issue on the alternator belt. I'd suspect that the overheating issue your seeing is probably and old t-stat since your car had been sitting for so long, its probably just stuck close.
Pop out those skateboard bearings and get some vaseline and coat the outside with it that way they'll press right into the shifter cables. You might need to adjust your shifter cables on the inside of the car as well, you can tell it needs adjustment if you push the shifter straight up and it won't go into 3rd gear.

 

[ist dwa]

Always refer to this post for a no start first http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/articles-miscellaneous/217951-how-diagnose-no-start.html

 

[ClipseAPG]

Thanks ist da, I did search plenty first but couldn't find that thread, must've been the keywords I used. I was wondering why there wasn't a combined thread on how to diagnose such a common issue, but now I know there is and that I'm just incompetent using the search tool haha. Also, in regards to the alternator/ belt squeal, the belt actually got so hot from rubbing on the pulleys that it tore off of the pulleys. I noticed the saturn alternator is a 5 rib pulley as opposed to the stock 4, could that be affecting the belts un-interfered travel and have caused it to tear?