94 Tracker was running great till I fixed it

[Heybobby]

Tracker is giving me a major headache right now. I would sure appreciate some advice. I noticed my timing belt was looking pretty old so I decided to replace it. When I rotated the crank pulley around to set it on TDC, I noticed the cam pulley was retarded about 3 teeth. I thought hmmm that probably explains why there is no adjustment range left on the distributor. I got a new timing belt and made sure it was on TDC-compression stroke with the crank pulley according to timing mark on pulley and oil pump-- then moved the camshaft pulley forward 3 teeth to match the timing marks.. I put the belt on , rotated twice to make sure timing marks stayed the same- made sure rotor is pointing at #1 on dist cap. made sure #1 plug fired at correct time (static timed)--put it all back together and blahhhhhhh-- nothing,, wont even try to start. It seems like its got blow back through the throttle body and will only attempt to fire if I retard the timing way past the normal adjustment range. This Tracker was running good other than it seemed to be advanced a little fast on the timing. I just got it a couple of weeks ago. Things I know to be right-- The firing order is correct,, The timing marks were set according to Chiltons instructions,, It is timed with the #1 cylinder at 8 degrees before TDC on the compression stroke (tried going 180 out, just misfired). and its getting fuel, what time its not blowing out the top of the throttle body. Anyway if anyone has time and could help me out with ideas of where to go now, I would sure appreciate your advice
Bobby

94 Tracker
1.6 TBI 8 valve
auto trans

[Heybobby]

Ok I think I figured out what I did wrong - But i still need help. Apparently there are two timing marks on the cam pulley. One is marked 60A and is a raised dot on one leg of the pulley- the other is a groove cut into the edge of the pulley marked 80C. I think it was timed to the 80C and when I replaced the belt I timed it to the 60A mark which appears to be about 160 degrees away from the other mark- So now I have no compression in either cylinder and I'm sure I have the valves compltely out of sync with the pistons(cam pulley out of sync with crank pulley) Could someone please tell me how to put this back the way it is supposed to be. I dont know if I'm making a simple fix to hard or what but my little brain is just not figuring it out yet- Thankx bunches

[wizz302]

I've had the same probs on two vehicles I've owned, a 93 Subaru Legacy and a 76 Chevy Luv, the best thing to do is to get the book on that vehicle, about 20 bucks from Kragans or Autozone and follow it to a tee, I don't know what Chiltons you have but you need the book for just that vehicle.

[dra1]

When I changed my timming belt on a 95, the Chiltons book was showing 180 degrees off what it should have been saying.

[rdhyde911]

Sign up for the Autozone site. You can select your car and get info for free. It is fairly good. I am not sure about the Chiltons but the Haynes is wrong or I missed it. When you set it up to their info. It is really number 4 cylinder on compression and firing. That is on a 16 valve engine anyway. Haynes it was always 180 degrees off. The "E" on the cam gear would end up at 6 o'clock from using the Haynes manual. No compression you have the wrong mark.