95 Camry Won't Start

[dgrego5555]

Originally Posted by RIP

To me that screams timing. When you max+ the distributor adjustment, what does the timing read using a timing light? If it's running it should read somewhere around 10 BTDC. Beyond that, I'm stumped. You say the marks are aligned and the rotor is pointing at #1. What else is there? Try confirming #1 is at TDC the old fashion way. You can't put your thumb over the #1 spark plug hole so connect a compression gauge and make sure the pressure maxes at or near TDC as you rotate the engine using a breaker bar on the crank. When the pressure is maxed the timing marks should be at least close to aligned. See if that reveals anything. Maybe the crank or cam sprocket has slipped. Not sure if that can even happen.

I know for a certain that the crank is at TDC and the cam is in it's proper place and the rotor points at #1. I guess i'm going to try another ecm from ebay as the cheapest rebuilt from auto parts store is abought $400.00 with ca sales tax.

[dgrego5555]

i finally got it figured out. Daniel Dreifus was right. something kept bugging me the wire on the original pig tail was black and it was on the end of the pig tail but both all of the wiring diagrams and both pig tails i had including one off of a 93 camry showed the black wire in the middle. i found the original pig tail that i cut off and broke it apart to find the wire colors and they turned out to go different prongs on the distributor that the other pigtails and different than all of the wiring diagrams. Motors, Mitchell, Autozone & Haynes repair manuals all had it wrong. wow i i hadn't kept the old connector i doubt this would have ever got fixed. thanks for all the help. Dan

[GSS123]

Great thread.

Did you try any of the electrical schematics posted at the top of this forum. My experience with Haynes manuals on Corollas and Camrys seem to be written for right side drive cars. Which places many of the components on the opposite side of the engine compartment. I was surprised by the number of manuals you sited having the electrical schematics wrong.

[dgrego55558]

i went over every available wiring diagram including the 94 factory service manual that can be downloaded including Mitchell on demand i have on cd. the colors were exactly the same as my old pig tail but the order in the pigtail where they connected to the distributor were different. the diagrams and the actual pigtails i got were wired as

#1 red #2 blue #3 black #4 yellow

my camry's pigtail is wired as follows #1 red #2 yellow #3 blue #4 black

what threw me off originally was all the colors were the same so i mistakenly assumed they were all in the same order. the plastic connector itself even had the same part #. when i changed out the pigtail the first time i cut the wires flush at the connectors so i wasn't able to just look at the old one and tell the difference it wasn't until i cut my original apart that i discovered the my mistake.

[dgrego55558]

i just looked at the 94 diagram and realized i made a mistake it clearly shows the ca emissions are wired different i will go back and look at the other diagrams i mentioned to see if i just looked at them wrong.

[Mike Gerber]

"i just looked at the 94 diagram and realized i made a mistake"

Which 94 diagram? The one in the downloadable factory service manual stickied at the top of this forum?

Mike