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lol, sry. most people forget that part. good luck with the dist. let us know if this works, if no there are a few more areas to check

Well I'm going to the breaker yard to pick up an ecu for the car.

you'd be surprised on the timing thing, it really needs to be dead on. it seems much more crucial on a quad rather than dohc, but ive found picky ones of each. anyhow i had this same problem after a oil pump replacement, and after throwing parts at it for days i finally figured it out. it was totally unrelated, but my coil was not up to par. I replaced the coil and it fired right up no problem. The only indicator was by looking at the color of the spark on the plug, just pull a plug out, put it back in the boot, then ground it the engine or frame and look at the color of the spark. with a charged up battery it better be blue, if its orange or yellowish then i'd think about throwing coil in it.

if that checks out fine, go back in and check the timing marks, you are at the point now where you just need to eliminate the possibilities.

as far as your transmission goes, if you have an automatic computer in it and it isn't getting a signal from the tranmissions computer(automatic) that it is in park or nuetral, regardless of the shifters position upon removal, then it won't even crank. this is assuming you didn't change any connections to MAKE it crank. do you have a dmm? if so check your coil again, and if it is indeed within specs and getting spark just follow your components between there and your plugs. that should narrow it down a little for you.

also, and i am not sure on the 5s what this would affect, but if you removed the crank position sensor when you did the timing belt, or it is just too far out of spec (resistance and clearence) it may not be understanding that the engine is even turning over. you may want to check to be sure that you have connected that.

This post has been edited by johnnypopper420: Apr 8, 2009 - 6:46 PM

i recently just rebuilt my 5sfe and when i went to start it i also had this problem it wouldnt start no matter what i did, so i took off my valve cover and checked my timing and realized that there are two marks on the exhaust cam i believe and i had lined up the wrong dots, so as soon as i relined them back up and putit back together it fired right up. and if they are out of time you should have a weak vacum on your intake so check that