Can It be the timing belt or ignition? Options

[y2komar]

Ok my buddy owns a 94 celica gt. He called me yesterday the car died out on him. It has about 150k mileages on it.

He was driving and the car just shut off. I went over to see if i can help but was unsuccessful. I turn the key and it cranks but does not start. I pulled one spark wire to see if it had spark wile I crank it and it did not have any spark.

now I think that it might be something with the ignition, igniter or the timing belt.

what can it be.

the car was running perfect before this.
thanks

This post has been edited by y2komar: Sep 18, 2007 - 12:04 PM

[x_itchy_b_x]

ignition system or timing belt like you said. ask if it is the original belt, if it is then good chances thats what it is.

[y2komar]

I went to check the car out again. I took the coil and igniter off my celica gt along with the wires and some tools.

Once I got there I noticed some differences. He also owns a 94 gt but his seems to not have a coil. just a igniter



this is how mine looks



I dont understand how it is that two cars that are identical have two different parts. umnnn oh well

well I replaced is igniter with mine and it did not make a difference. I then slighly took off the cover of the timing belt and there seems to be the problem. The belt was not broken but was ver loose. It seems like it stretched or the tensioner is no longer working

[y2komar]

I just came back from pulling my buddys car into the mechanic. The car is in Flushing. The mechanic is someone my friend knows that is why we took it there.

what was more upseting was that the mechanic asked
what are the miles?
what year?
umnnn maybe you should not spend the money to fix it. This is a big job.


Whatttttttt. Is he crazy. I thought to myself.
(if he only know how hard is to find a black on black hatch gt)
then i said of course it is worth it to fix it.

Well the car is now in the mechanic shop and he will let us know how much he will charge tomorrow. I told him to replace timing belt, belt tensioner, and water pump.

What do you think would be a fair price for that. Remember this is NYC

[94celigts]

i paid 650 for all that 2 yrs ago

[njccmd2002]

i paid 650 for all that 2 yrs ago

ill do this myself, nver done it. but thats the reason i bought my celica, to learn. toyota wash charging me 600. ( I have another car tough)

[y2komar]

my friend just called me and told me the mechanic said it was the ignition coil.. umnnnn

I thought that was what it was but I could not find it. As you can see from the pics that I posted I can only see the igniter.

in my car the coil and igniter are both together.


the shop will do the coil along with the belt waterpump and tensioner for under 600. I guess he is getting a deal