Mazda B2200 Timing/Overheating Issue...?

[ransdell22]

My 1993 Mazda B2200 was overheating. I replaced the water pump, but when I started the truck, the timing belt slid forward and began rubbing a hole through the cover. I realized I hadn't tightened down the tensioner pulley bolt, so I installed a new belt and tightened down the pulley bolt. When I started the truck, the belt immediately drifted towards the rear of the truck and began rubbing and fraying. I realized I had overtightened the pulley bolt, causing the belt to slip, and corrected that issue. Went to start the truck, and it just turns over with zero indication of wanting to start. I'm guessing I messed up the timing somewhere between the second and third tensioner pulley adjustments, but am wondering if there could anything else causing it. To top it all of, I still haven't been able to drive the truck and see if the water pump fixed the overheating issue. As a side note, the timing was dead-on at least up until I did the third pulley adjustment (may still be). Any thoughts on this nightmare?

 

[men2]

Remove the #1 spark plug. Use a breaker bar and whatever socket fits on the crank pulley bolt. Turn engine until you see the #1 piston reach top dead center, TDC. or when you can clearly touch it with a thin screwdriver. Remove the timing belt cover and look for the notched or molded marks on the cam pulley and match it up to the mark on the back of the cam "housing" or valve cover. Sometimes you have to line up the top edge of the cylinder head with the two notches on the cam pulley.
Even better yet, get the Haynes or Chilton Total Car Care manual and read how to set up that timing belt. You probably jumped a tooth or two.
Finally, there may have been some other cause to your problem like the crank sensor being unplugged or damaged.
Go step by step and look carefully at it. Good luck!!!