Need some help with 5S, Not a Celica, but still a 5S Options

[d3ath2009]

Recently did some work on my mother-in-law's car. Not a Celica, but a '99 Camry with a 5S so it should be close enough that diagnosis on here may be helpful. I replaced the head gasket, put on new timing belt and water pump, got everything back together and now the car just won't start. At first it would start to hit on ether, but then it eventually quit with that so at this point it may be flooded out, but not entirely sure. I am wonder if its possibly not getting fuel. Timing is good, did it by the book and i checked everything half a dozen times to be sure. It has compression and is also getting spark. Any ideas as to what would cause it not to start and/or how to remedy a possibility of air in the fuel lines? I can hear the fuel pump running after trying to turn the engine a few times, so it should at least be sending fuel up front, but I don't know if its getting to the injectors yet or not. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and helpful.

[slavie]

60 psi is garbage territory. If it ran before and you just put everything together with the new HG, it should run no worse than it did before, warped head or not. Even if 2 cylinders you measured are blown, the engine would still start on the other 2 (I'm assuming all 4 are not blown, as that's unlikely)

Pop your valve cover, check intake to exhaust camshaft timing per instructions I linked above. 10 minutes. You want intake valves open, nothing, exhaust valves open then closed, followed immediately by intake opening. Keep in mind that the exhaust cam is rotating in opposite direction to intake cam due to being gear driven.

I literally had the same situation - lined up the wrong dots. Engine still had "some" compression, but exhaust valves would open at the wrong time releasing compression before the spark fired.

This post has been edited by slavie: Dec 27, 2017 - 4:58 PM