I have a 1996 sohc 2.0L neon with maybe 200K on this engine. It ran okay with the usual 200K issues but it still ran. I changed out the timing belt as it was time as well as the water pump and now upon putting it all back together have no spark. Cranks over fine but not one burp of spark. I have fuel to the injector rail and fuel in the cylinders but no spark to the plugs. I have checked for codes and got a 55 which means all is okay. Checked fuses and all is okay. I am just going out to check relays and see if the crank sensor got damaged during my timing belt re and re. Any ideas? What am i mising on a straight forward timing belt and WP replacement?

 

Just checked the crank sensor and it seems to be intact wires seem to be good. During the Timing belt change i did have to jack the engine up to get at some bolts on and off so i thought i may have pulled on some wiring too hard. But nothing is visably broken.

 

check the coil pack

 

Not sure how i could have damaged the coil pack by replacing a timing belt. I can check it but don;t know how. However my neighbor has an old running 96 neon as well so maybe a swap and see. However it was running fine before.One thing that did happen is upon trying to start it for the first time with the new timing belt i noticed that the fuel line to the injector rail was leaking quite bad. Kind of spraying all over. When i removed it or replaced it i must have toasted an o-ring. I replaced it and no leaks. Maybe there is an overflow protection circuit that has shut off spark due to the fuel line leak and i need to do a reset. Is this a possibility?

 

I doubt it but be thankful there isnt spark... engine fires kill cars... unplug the #1 spark plug wire from the coil pack and with a pair of plyers hold it next to the #1 coil pack connection and try to start it, if you here a "zap" then you have spark from the coil, but make sure the fuel leak is fixed first.also you can check the lead and groud wires to the coil pack, make sure they are still connected and in good shape.