I just replaced my water pump tonight go to start and it just turns over. I checked for spark which it has, I'll have to do a compression tomorrow on all four but no.1 maxed out at 90psi seams low? also checked for fuel which I could smell with a few plugs out so I had to have messed the timing up?

A) how could I have messed the timing up I didnt touch the cam gear or move the crank during the whole process and B) is it most likely timing issue I seen a pic on aligning for the timing belt but I couldnt read half of what it said. Also not sure how it would do anything but I didnt unplug the battery during the process could that (which I would doubt) cause any problems? It ran 100% fine before minus the temp gauge rising to almost red and falling to a little above half when driving.

its a 90 civic dx 1.5 direct port, only mod is the si trans but that wouldnt matter in this case

 

lots of people say that if your car is turning and not starting it maybe a problem with your fuel pump. >< im in the same situation right now haha.

 

is the compression even, or all 4 low?. sounds like the timings out to me

 

To check your fuel pump put the key in the on position. You should hear a buzzing sound coming from the fuel pump for about three seconds but you said you had fuel anyway. Sounds like timing you might have put the tensionser on to loose and the belt may have jumped a tooth on a cam gear.

 

yup fuel was pushing, spark ah sparking, timing was not timing correctly. Bought a hayns and I did the belt wrong, I had slack from the cam gear going down to the crank gear suppose to be tight/little slack. Then I was suppose to hand crank the engine counter clockwise a quarter turn or so to get the timing belt to tension properly, then tighten the tensioner bolt.

I think it didnt help I got off work late and was really tired by the end o well now I know ho to do it, found out number 1 cylinder was about 25psi or so less than the other 3 cylinder