Oooo you dodged a bullet on that one in not skipping a tooth on the timing! Good job on finding it though!

Yeah I almost made an equally silly mistake putting our V6 escape back together when replacing the timing cover seals. There's a timing wheel that that sits behind the cover, in front of the crankshaft gear for the timing chains.It sets the signal for the Crank Angle sensor. I was in the process of positioning the cover back on to torque it down and put it all back together when I happened to look over my shoulder to look for a tool and noticed the wheel sitting there.... No wheel = no timing=no spark....

 

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=lots of cussing

 

 

Now that's more like it!
I noticed a little smoke coming from the passenger side. Was that a drop of oil burning on the exhaust manifold or did you leave the oil filler cap off?

 

 

Phook yeah!