Ok, here goes. This is my kids car. The car started, he went to pull out of a space and his foot slipped off the clutch and it died. Now it wont start.

Heres what I know.

1 Its got spark, checked with a good plug
2 The rotor is spinning telling me the timing belt is still good
3 Its got fuel to the fuel filter, losened the banjo and turned key on, gas squirted out
4 Looking down the plug holes I can smell gas, and saw some on top of the pistons while cranking
5 One cylinder has 60 psi compression, others are all 150... This was dry, all plugs out, ECU fuse NOT pulled, and i did not pull the fuel pump fuse out. And i did not WOT the gas pedal while doing it.

My question is... Could the Timing belt have skipped a tooth or 2 causing it not to start, and bad comprerssion in one cylinder? Please help me, Im pulling my hair out. Anything else I should check?

 

If the car has over 90k miles, you might look at the belt jumping a tooth or two, check the line up of cam timing marks.

 

You think that if it slipped a tooth the car would not run at all, and have bad compression in just one cylinder? I hope thats it, you ever seen this before? The car has 150,000 miles, not sure when the last timing belt was done...

 

slip a tooth will cause a not run. bad compression will cause a rough engine.

 

I don't know why it wont start but i do know that the reason why that one cylinder is low in compression is because you have a bad exhaust valve. so you might want to check all you valves, and the timing belts could have slip making the bad valve. I hope this helped you out, and maybe you can get it running again.

 

Yeah, i'm with them. Sounds like the belt may have jumped a few teeth.