Crank no start no rpm 96 5.7

[Kevmore007]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but maybe we will all figure this out together.
I replaced the crank sensor, and hooked up a scanner and am getting rpm, and spark, and it coughs a bit now. I am waiting for the snow to melt because it's outside and it snows in March and April and May sometimes June. The next thing I am going to do is check TDC and find out if the distributor isn't off by a tooth.

 

[Kevmore007]

Update. I can make the coil fire if I take the sensor out and take a screwdriver and pass it across the sensor the coil fires every time I do that. When I install the sensor it doesn't fire.
Since the original sensor was damaged, how likely is the gear butchered bad enough not to work?

I am getting ready to LS swap this thing, and I only need it to run long enough to back it up the driveway into the garage. It's too steep to push it.

 

[Schurkey]

I can make the coil fire if I take the sensor out and take a screwdriver and pass it across the sensor the coil fires every time I do that.

That seems to verify the rest of the ignition system. Good.

When I install the sensor it doesn't fire.
Since the original sensor was damaged, how likely is the gear butchered bad enough not to work?

I wouldn't expect that...but clearly something is wrong with the sensor/reluctor system, and the sensor seems to work. So that leaves the reluctor.