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Its me again, lol.

I have a 1994 Mazda B2300 2.3L. Broke down 2 weeks ago, come to find out the timing belt broke. After a few  posts here and some good advice i got it replaced, and all back together and it started.

For the two weeks after that, it was rough getting it started sometimes. You would have to pump the gas and sometimes hold it down. Cranked for 10-15 seconds but it would eventually start. Sometimes it wouldn't, but if you let it sit for a few minutes it would eventually. I thought it was getting flooded.

Today, came out of work, and wouldnt start. Waited awile, it sounded like it wanted to, it was kicking over a little bit, but nothing. Now it wont even do that, just cranks. I tried starting fluid, nothing.

It is getting spark, I pulled a spark plug ( it has 2 per cylinder) and plugs looked clean. I had someone crank it without the plug to see if it was sparking and it was. AND, when it cranked some combustion came out the plug since there was one on the other side.

So it seems like that cylinder is firing anyway. Im stumped.

Any help is greatly appreciated.  

check the timing it could be off  when you put the new timing belt on make

sure it was aliened up right  

mike f:
check the timing it could be off  when you put the new timing belt on make

sure it was aliened up right

But would it work and then stop? I guess if the belt slipped?

That belt was on pretty tight..  

maybe you placed the wrong timing belt? sometimes it does slip if it is too tight or too loose. the mechanism would evolve but the belt would not.