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changed timing belt and now this

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mastadogg2

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Jun 11, 2003
harrisburg, Pennsylvania
After changing my timing belt and balance shaft belt and all the accessories my car refuses to startup. It will just sit there and crank. Before the timing belt job it ran fine.
The only thing I can think of is that when I replaced the balance shaft belt I unbolted my
Crank angle sensor, thats held on by 2 bolts. Is there anyway to test the Crank angle sensor to see if its working? or the power transistor, or something along those lines.

On my dsmlink I logged when I was trying to turn the motor over, and it showed 2% injector duty cycle, so I guess its getting fuel but I cant smell fuel at all. and it only sparked at the coilpack with cylinder #4 plug off.

update: cylinder 1 and 3 get spark from plug wires, and cylinder 2 and 4 spark from coilpack... so its getting spark in 2 cylinders.
 
mastadogg2 said:
After changing my timing belt and balance shaft belt and all the accessories my car refuses to startup. It will just sit there and crank. Before the timing belt job it ran fine.
The only thing I can think of is that when I replaced the balance shaft belt I unbolted my
Crank angle sensor, thats held on by 2 bolts. Is there anyway to test the Crank angle sensor to see if its working? or the power transistor, or something along those lines.

On my dsmlink I logged when I was trying to turn the motor over, and it showed 2% injector duty cycle, so I guess its getting fuel but I cant smell fuel at all. and it only sparked at the coilpack with cylinder #4 plug off.

update: cylinder 1 and 3 get spark from plug wires, and cylinder 2 and 4 spark from coilpack... so its getting spark in 2 cylinders.


Are you sure you set the timing correctly? Are you sure you didnt put that timing plate on backwards?

If you think its the coil pack then switch it up with one you know thats good. :)
 
95's dont require removing the crank sprocket, I got the balance shaft belt on by just unbolting the crank position sensor and sliding it over.

It seems like im getting no fuel at all, because i opened my fuel rail up and had someone crank motor 1-2 times and nothing at all came out.

with the crank position sensor fully off, and unbolted i got no spark at all, with it bolted up and connected i get spark.
 
mastadogg2 said:
95's dont require removing the crank sprocket, I got the balance shaft belt on by just unbolting the crank position sensor and sliding it over.

It seems like im getting no fuel at all, because i opened my fuel rail up and had someone crank motor 1-2 times and nothing at all came out.

with the crank position sensor fully off, and unbolted i got no spark at all, with it bolted up and connected i get spark.

I'm not sure of the answer to this but my next thing I would do is swap ecu's with a good ecu just to rule that out of the question. I have good spares of almost everyting though.
 
there was a wire unhooked for the fuel pump, hooked that back up and it turned over.. but now it became an intermediate problem. it turns over when it wants and idles fine then sometimes it turns over for a half second then dies. i somewhat narrowed it down to either the fuel pump or the coilpack. I will update if i find the problem
 
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