1990 regency, fires but no start

Btj7011

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Well I'm at a loss. Bit of a story with this one but I'll just cut to the chase, working on this for a friend. The serpentine belt rallied off and took out the crankshaft and camshaft sensors. He had a shop replace them but now we have a no start condition. Shop basically told him to put it up for sale as a "mechanics special" lol. Anyway, I tested the crank and cam sensors, I'm getting my 3x pulses, 18x pulses and a pulse from the cam. I have spark on all 6 cylinders and I get a little fuel fountain when I push the Schrader valve so I think fuel pump is good. The car will give you a tickle of a start but won't fully fire up. It's almost like the timing is out or its not switching to the pcm to take over timing. I have 2 icm's and both do the same so I don't think it's that. Maybe PCM? I dunno. If anyone has any ideas that would be appreciated
 
I've had that problem before myself, go get a salveage yard pcm, if you can find one.
 
Yeah I was able to get it going again. Several things were wrong with it in the end, but essentially on the coil pack one of the connector tabs was barely hanging on. The maf sensor was totally plugged, spark plugs completely fouled and oxygen sensor was shot. I had it on good faith that it "ran perfectly" before coming to my hands but there's no way it did with all those issues lol. Anyway after replacing all those it runs like a top now. Hopefully that helps someone else
 
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