Originally Posted by benz831

Hi all, I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction here, I will contact my mechanic tomorrow, but am on pins and needles right now, hoping someone can shed some light on this,
I am driving to work about a month ago and the car dies, I have had this car 6 mos now, never has even sputtered ran beautiful, it felt like the fuel pump went out, I pull the car off the road, bang on the fuel pump, try and start it and get nothing but cranking sounds like no gas or spark, I have it towed to my benz mechanic, expecting a fuel pump, get a call, bad news, timing chain has broke and timing chain cover is broken, motor trashed. I have the car towed home, sick to death over it.
Today I get the courage to go out and pull a valve cover off and see if the valves are really all bent up. to my surprise, there is the timing chain, intact, pull the other valve cover, chain, intact, now I am excited, pull the gas lines off, crank the motor, gas everywhere so fuel pump working, pull the dist cap, crank the motor, rotor turns, still not starting tho, pour a little gas in the throat of the injector throttle, nothing , so I am suspecting there is no spark, am i missing someting obvious, or is my mechanic wrong and the timing chain is not the problem??
Please help