Q: Timing belt

asked by on July 17, 2017

It's not cranking over, fuel pump works, I do have spark, I haven't checked compression, but for the past months have only been start8ng up my truck by bypassing the starter solenoid. And it sound like she wants to crank up but nothing. I seen that my timing belt cover was loose and seen that when I try to start her up that the timing belt ain't spinning. Is it suppose to spin while trying to crank it up? And now it has a slower crank up to for some reason While back my NSS went out and it was doing the same thing wouldn't turn over.

My car has 440000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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