Update : The toyota dealership got it running, the timing gears were set wrong. Apparently the guy who changed the BHG put em in wrong.
A little intro to this car. I bought it as my graduation present to myself last year. The car was $1000 with a BHG. I hired a friend of mine to replace it, and found out the head was cracked. Proceeded to buy a new head for it, and my friend put it all back together, but then never finished it. His dad told me I had to get the car out of their yard (It was killing their grass :nono
so I took it to my girlfriends house for her dad and I to work on. Figured out the security was what was keeping the car from starting (or so I thought) and so I took it to a shop. I waited about 3 months or so, and they had absolutely nothing done on it. They had checked the timing and that was it.
So I decided that I would take it home and finish it up myself. I have had it at my house for about a week now, and have bypassed the security (by grounding the blue/orange wire leading to the Theft Deterrent Computer) and put the belts back on, and now I'm kind of at a stand still. It will crank, I have spark (shocked myself while I was checking it haha) and I have jumped the FP and B+ on the diagnostic block and my fuel pump will turn on, but it won't turn over and start. I have also jumped the T1 and E1 diagnostic spots, and got a Code 11.
The timing :
I was also told to check that the cam lobe was on its upward swing when at TDC, and it is. I have not yet gotten a timing light, but plan to buy one Friday when I get my paycheck.
I also have checked my coil pack, which the friend of mine who replaced the head had ran wrong. I redid the plug wires to all the correct cylinders, and still, no start.
I had a box of things that I got from my friend's house when I moved the car, and when I was going through it, I found this wire :
I have been told that this might be a coilpack-to-valve cover ground, and was told to look on the drivers side of the coilpacks for a ground wire, but had no luck finding one. If this is correct, where would I run the wire from, and where would I ground it to? I was thinking that maybe this is where the ground should end, and have checked the bolt, and it seems to fit :
I have also found that some of my fuses near the battery are not getting power. I was testing them with a test light, and the row of fuses closest to the battery all light up fine, but the fuses (including what I believe is the EFI fuse) further from the battery do not light up. The fuses do not appear to be blown, though.
What would be my next move to make from here? I think I need to figure out why I'm not getting power to those fuses, although I'm not sure what could be preventing these but not the ones next to them.
Edit : Ignore the fuse part of that, i was checking the wrong fuses, my bad
A little intro to this car. I bought it as my graduation present to myself last year. The car was $1000 with a BHG. I hired a friend of mine to replace it, and found out the head was cracked. Proceeded to buy a new head for it, and my friend put it all back together, but then never finished it. His dad told me I had to get the car out of their yard (It was killing their grass :nono
so I took it to my girlfriends house for her dad and I to work on. Figured out the security was what was keeping the car from starting (or so I thought) and so I took it to a shop. I waited about 3 months or so, and they had absolutely nothing done on it. They had checked the timing and that was it. So I decided that I would take it home and finish it up myself. I have had it at my house for about a week now, and have bypassed the security (by grounding the blue/orange wire leading to the Theft Deterrent Computer) and put the belts back on, and now I'm kind of at a stand still. It will crank, I have spark (shocked myself while I was checking it haha) and I have jumped the FP and B+ on the diagnostic block and my fuel pump will turn on, but it won't turn over and start. I have also jumped the T1 and E1 diagnostic spots, and got a Code 11.
The timing :
I was also told to check that the cam lobe was on its upward swing when at TDC, and it is. I have not yet gotten a timing light, but plan to buy one Friday when I get my paycheck.
I also have checked my coil pack, which the friend of mine who replaced the head had ran wrong. I redid the plug wires to all the correct cylinders, and still, no start.
I had a box of things that I got from my friend's house when I moved the car, and when I was going through it, I found this wire :
I have been told that this might be a coilpack-to-valve cover ground, and was told to look on the drivers side of the coilpacks for a ground wire, but had no luck finding one. If this is correct, where would I run the wire from, and where would I ground it to? I was thinking that maybe this is where the ground should end, and have checked the bolt, and it seems to fit :
I have also found that some of my fuses near the battery are not getting power. I was testing them with a test light, and the row of fuses closest to the battery all light up fine, but the fuses (including what I believe is the EFI fuse) further from the battery do not light up. The fuses do not appear to be blown, though.
What would be my next move to make from here? I think I need to figure out why I'm not getting power to those fuses, although I'm not sure what could be preventing these but not the ones next to them.
Edit : Ignore the fuse part of that, i was checking the wrong fuses, my bad
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