Ok guys here is the low down. I recently built my own motor, got the car up and running again and have maybe 400 miles on the fresh engine. I noticed it seaping some oil out of the bell housing, I am pretty sure most of us know what that means. So I pull the car into the garage to replace the rear main. I get the job done (by myself, no lift, and with hand tools only) put the whole car back together and now it does not start.

WHAT I HAVE ATTEMPTED:
-compression test all above 150psi and withing 5 psi of each other
- plugs (not new but out of a running evo)
-coil packs and wires from other evo
-when I checked the spark is big and bright
- plugs come out soaked so it obvious it is getting fuel
- unplugged the maff and took the IC pipe off at the throttle body

The car does try to start, like ever once in a while it kicks over with a sound of life but no go. I have no idea what is wrong, the fact that it ran perfect before leads me to beleive it was something i had off to remove the tranny but that all appears to be connected, and shouldn't really impact if it runs or not anyway




Any help is greatly apreciated thanks guys.!

 

Well i got a minute to check out the car more in the daylight and the verdict is it jumped time. My question is why????????? I had the car jump timing once before but that was because the ecentric pulley on the timing belt tensioner arm swung down out of position. That made all the tension come off the timing belt. It was really no wonder why it jumped timing that time but this time the belt is still nice and tight, the pulley that caused the issue before seams to be in the right spot. I am at a loss and honestly hate my car ATM

 

definately time to burn.
just get logical find the problem.

 

It jumped time and still had 150 psi? wow.
Id put it back in time and do a leak down. Its weird that it jumped time.
Did you rotate the motor backwards by any chance? You may wanna go ahead and replace that tensior too. GL

 

Thats why it took me that long to find the problem. I was like screw jacken it up and poppen the wheel off, compression tester can tell me if its in time. well guess not haha. And actually the tensioner is brand new. I might put my old one back on, never gave me a single problem. I think the cause or part of the cause is when I deleted my balance shafts I also removed the balance shaft sprocket. I used a light weight spacer in its place but with the spacer being smaller than the actual crank pulley the guiding effect the sprocket used to provide is now gone. I am gonna re-install the sprocket and time it again with new tensioner and belt. Hopefully that should take care of it.



Side note* does anyone no of an aftermarket manually adjusted timing belt tensioners for the evo?

 

You need to replace the belt tensioner. just dont use air tool on it. that is why most of them fail.

 

I did replace the tensioner less than 400 miles ago. and no worry on the air tools, calibrated elbow is the only way to fly