Engine Repaired - Car won't start

2004 HYUNDAI TIBURON
4 CYL • AUTOMATIC
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DIOLOCKO
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I got a 2004 Hyundai Tiburon. The car was sold to me with a few minor problems in the engine. One bright mechanic did the mistake of wanting to flush the engine since it was so dirty, that when you tried to add oil to the engine, it would descend extremely slow. But, he never cleaned at all the engine crank and all that sediment blocked the oil pump and well, you can guess the rest.

Point is, the engine was repaired (almost all pieces that can be repaired) and looks almost new. Everything was connected again, but now the car won't start, it won't spark at all. They've supposedly checked even with a car's manual that all connections are correctly attached and their best guess, as they already checked it's not the crank sensor, that it has to be the car's computer. That either it needs to be programmed again, or it has simply gone 10/7 (both which are hard to happen to such computer), but ok. However, they haven't made arrangements yet with an electro-mechanic and I wanted a second guess. Anyone know what it might be?

P.S. Car has electricity, but it won't reach some parts of the engine where the injectors are..etc.. ergo no spark.
Dec 28, 2010 at 5:06 AM
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No snapping blue spark continue to troubleshoot the ignition system-power input to the coil/coil packs,coil's resistances,distributor pick-up coil, ignition control module, cam and crank sensors and computer Note: If it doesn't apply disregard it.
Dec 28, 2010 at 5:31 AM
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DIOLOCKO
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Appreciate your reply.

I went ahead and brought it to a Hyundai Tech. At first it seemed like the computer was failing since it had a bent pin at the socket but we hadn't made tests.

Then we found out the engine had no compression on the pistons. We opened and saw the timing belt wrongly installed.

That was all, surprisingly.
Dec 31, 2010 at 3:20 AM
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