I am doing my timing belt and got everything reinstalled. When I tried to manually turn over the engine a couple of times....nothing happened. I can not spin my crankshaft.

I took off the timing belt and STILL can not turn it. WTF do I do!?

 

whoever tried to PM please try again......it did not go through....thanks!

 

try going the other way... your pistons may be sitting on the valves, chances are you installed the belt wrong... try turning the cam or cams to open and close different valves and try again, make sure all valves on cyl #1 are closed and bring that pistion to the top of its travel and put the belt back on

also a good idea to refer to your manual if you have one.

 

i was told to only turn the pulley counter clockwise.....unless moving just a little bit in the opposite direction.

and if the cam is at TDC.....all pistons should be at equal height...

 

is your car in neutral?

 

Yeh I got everything running......engine runs great! Thanks anyway guys. Nothing was wrong to begin with......still not sure why it wouldnt turn over....but when i started the engine it was well timed and ran great!

 

HIGH COMPRESSION FTW!
FYI- when the cams are timed, everything is setup to be at #1 TDC, which means the #1 piston is all the way up.
good job.