Thread: Won't start after cam install

Brandon..

Please try what we chatted about.
ICM harness to ensure it's getting the right signals from the sensors.

Clean and dry plugs. I'd like to see you have the plugs out overnight and or while you do the harness. That way they aren't fuel fouled and not throwing a spark.

Unplug the maf and try to start the car wtih a little throttle.

Pull the balancer to ensure that it is on properly and somehow isn't misaligned off the keyway and it didn't destroy the key.

Check for bad/bent pins on the crank sensor.

If you are postive your firing order is correct and when you said first coil you meant the top one, then it shouldn't be anything other than one of the above. If you have spark and fuel, which you say you do...it's something timing wise and likely the harness or a sensor.

Originally Posted by Bedwards

Yep. I'm gonna do all this tonight.

I thought you were all over everything last night.

That's not what I was hoping to hear. (the sensor would have been an easy fix)

Nah..pins on the crank sensor. If one was bent or something that would have been nice.

Originally Posted by Bedwards

That motor rebuilding grease. I put it on the cam lobes, end of pushrods etc. If I can hold my finger on the spark plug hole, it's in time? I'm confused. Wouldn't the compression stroke air push your finger off?

Ya, I just reread what I typed, and I had it backwards. I was tired, still am, but I fixed it. Then I scrolled down, and saw somebody had caught it, and questioned that. LOL good job my eagle eyed reader.

~F~

have you bleed yet? nothing goes right for me unless im bleeding. paper towel and tape wrapped around a knuckle will do....

Originally Posted by Bedwards

I went to go pull the crank pulley off with the puller, and the f*cking thing doesn't want to budge. I stripped the main bolt on the puller. What the hell is going on? My god.

sounds like you destroyed the keyway. the pulley should come right off if it's been off recently with the right puller. the only reason it would be stuck is if you smashed the key in there and it is stuck.

i guess get a new puller and grease the treads real good. sounds like you found something here.

i wouldn't do that myself, try a new puller.

oh snap....DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL A COUPLE OF THE SENIOR GUYS ON HERE THINKS ITS OK TO but could he use a rubber hammer to tap it or even a hammer and a piece of hardwood as to not damage the pulley?