2001 Hyundai Accent Not Starting Anymore?

Timing belt won't cause lighting or fuel pump issues. Could be a power supply issue. Would be interesting to see what the ignition coil supply voltage is while your cranking the engine.

Check fuse 2 10A in the dash fuse panel. Make sure you have installed. If it is, take a volt meter and make sure you have battery voltage at the fuse with the ignition turned on. Then crank the engine and be sure you still have more than 10 volts at the fuse while the engine is cranking.

If it blows the timing belt, it won't have any compression. Once you figure out your issues and get it running again, wouldn't be a bad idea to inspect the timing belt. If it has never been replaced or it looks bad, replace it. You don't want bent up valves if one snaps.


Lol, I wasn't saying that the timing belt caused the Fuel Pump Problem or anything else. I think it's the Timing Belt, because I can't think of why other it wont start. It always started right up, but when I turned it off for only about 5 minutes and tried to turn it back on, it refused to start. So I think the Timing Belt Jumped or something, I checked that fuse you told me to look at, along with every other fuse. That fuse 2 10A in the Dash FuseBox says "ABS. Cluster". I am pretty sure that has to do with brakes I think, also all other fuses both in the dash and under the hood are fine. I can fix the fuel pump easy, but what I am really trying to figure out is why it isn't starting? I really want to try and avoid opening it up and checking the timing belt for right now, that's why I am looking for other reasons why it could of done that. I will check the timing belt at a later time, I just want to troubleshoot until I have to open it up and check the belt. Any other ideas?

So I put them all back, perfectly, all tight and in there.




You had all the fuses out at one time?..........You may want to get a diagram of the block and double check all the slots real close......Some blocks have unused slots and you may have got a fuse in the wrong place....

I know what your thinking Sid, problem didn't show up till the fuses where played with. I was thinking the same when I started reading it.

There is always the possibility the belt could of jumped or broke and it is just a coincidence. You won't be able to tell if it jumped teeth unless you pull the top timing cover off (which is easy) unless you have a 2 channel lab scope laying around. If it has jumped a couple of teeth and hasn't snapped yet or jumped a whole lot more, you don't want to find out by cranking on it. It is snapped or jumps anymore teeth while your playing around, you'll be pulling the cylinder head off.







Here is the whole process step by step on what I did. Acquired the car, Drove car down the street to test it before I got tabs, Drove it 3 times in one day down the same street just to keep testing it before I got tabs. Next day, slapped tabs on it, started it up like usual, didn't touch anything but the blinker lever switch to check the blinkers. They didn't come on, I turned off the vehicle like usual by turning the key, then I opened the dash fusebox, pulled one fuse out (Forgot which one) it was fine, so I put it back in, tried to start the car and BAM, won't start. I am really sure it wasn't the fuse because I checked many times to see if it was a fuse. I am ruling that out.