Need help with e30 crancking but wont turn over.

[staysideways]

Hi guys i need your help. We did a timing belt,water pump,camshaft seal and oring,thermostat on my friends car and now it cranks but wont start. First i thought i did the timing wrong and bent valves. But no double checked timing and its right. All tdc marks line up.the belt is on firm and everything is connected. Except for radiator and hoses. I am getting yellowish spark and the injectors should be firing if all cylinder are flooding and weting the plugs.

Pulled plugs and dried them with compressed air. Double checked spark still have it. Put the plugs back in still doesnt turn over. Pulled them out they are wet again.

I have a crank position sensor on the way now. But it will be delivered to me in 8 hours. So any help would be greatly apriciated.
Btw the rotor and cap are fairly new the rotor has lots of life left on it and the cap has minor carbon but i sanded those with 2000 grit sand paper twich over each of the prong things.

Could have we disconnected something or banged the crank position sensor?

1989 E30 325i Sedan Alpine

[spdracrm3]

Well if you have spark its not a crank sensor issue ,with wet plugs it should at least try to fire even if timing is somehow wrong, which is what I would suspect. Make sure with #1 piston at TDC (checked with screwdriver thru plug hole while turning motor at crank pulley, piston as high as it will go) check crank pulley TDC marks and check distributor rotor points to #1 or #6 plug wire in cap .

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[uturn]

Are the plug wires correct from the cap to the cylinders?

[staysideways]

I did that and at tdc the rotors stays just a little behind the #1mark in the cap

1989 E30 325i Sedan Alpine

[staysideways]

Are the plug wires correct from the cap to the cylinders?

Yea they are

Well if you have spark its not a crank sensor issue ,with wet plugs it should at least try to fire even if timing is somehow wrong, which is what I would suspect. Make sure with #1 piston at TDC (checked with screwdriver thru plug hole while turning motor at crank pulley, piston as high as it will go) check crank pulley TDC marks and check distributor rotor points to #1 or #6 plug wire in cap .

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1989 E30 325i Sedan Alpine

[staysideways]

Bump any help?

1989 E30 325i Sedan Alpine

[Marshmellow]

experiencing a similar issue where my 1990 325i will sometimes start up no problem and other times will just keep cranking to no avail. Pulled the sparkplugs and all have fuel on them along with my oil smelling like fuel as well. any help would be appreciated!

[cWalk3r]

Figure this out? I had a problem like this before. Did u check fuel spark and air? My car seemed to have all 3 but when I dug. Deeper I figured out that the fuel pump was only working occasionally because of a bad fuel pump relay.

[Seawolf]

experiencing a similar issue where my 1990 325i will sometimes start up no problem and other times will just keep cranking to no avail. Pulled the sparkplugs and all have fuel on them along with my oil smelling like fuel as well. any help would be appreciated!

Simple check: Pull the vacuum line off the Fuel Pressure Regulator, if you see fuel the diaphragm has failed and high pressure fuel is flooding the inlet manifold and cylinders.

- Just had/fixed this problem.