New Cambelt now won't start?

[macspring]

I know this is of no help, but you really can’t beat giving these cars to people who work on them very regularly, ( if you can’t do it yourself ), even if they are much further away than you’d like. Especially with the replacement of timing belts, and the bottom toothed cog on the end of the crank.

As I said, no help whatsoever in your present quandary.

Wishing you good luck in resolving it speedily and easily.

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[Sleeper_Avant]

obviousley your mechanic knows to check its timed by looking at the dizzy...........?

surely theve turned it over by hand to make sure theres no contact first, but get them to compression test it, then do a leak test

i take it its got plenty fuel in lol

[UrS4boy]

You can still pull the diagnostic codes. *My* fear would be that they have b*ggered the timing of the cam and the crank and/or the 3B distributor and are potentially banging the intake valves with the pistons. They need to confirm the proper cam belt to crankshaft timing and then make sure that the distributor is actually going around when they are cranking the engine, i.e. have a look with the distributor cap off.

[Condor]

Hi all, took my 3b in to garage to have the cambelt changed, had a phone call from the mechanic he said your car's all put back together now however it will not start, he said it turns over but there's no spark? has anyone got any ideas what maybe causing this problem?the distributor gear was replaced a couple of years back when the nylon one failed so shouldn't be that causing the problem, the car was running fine before this latest problem.
Things aren't going too well as there was a muck up with the water pump apparently it was put on back order then when it did arrive almost a week after it was ordered by the garage guess what it was the wrong one!!! now my lovely S2 won't start, I'm begining to wish I'd got all the parts needed for the job beforehand, I thought there would not be any problems as the same garage/mechanic renewed the cambelt etc when I bought the car almost 8years ago now.
I take it it's possible to plug the car into diagnostic machine am I right?
Thanks Condor,,,