[s-cars] '92 S4 won't start

[tedebearp at yahoo.com]

The little rubber hose under the intake manifold popped a leak last week, about 35 miles from home.  I topped off with water and hoped to make it home.  Unfortunately, the leak got worse and not wanting to blow the head gasket or warp the head, I had the car towed to a nearby garage (otherwise it would have been $250 to tow it home). 

The shop repaired the coolant hose.  However, they said the car won't start, though it cranks fine.  The car was running fine when I parked it, and they drove the car off the flatbed truck and into the shop last week.

They think it's the crank sensor and said there's no signal from it.  They speculated that coolant got everywhere and shorted out the sensor.  They said it's behind the timing belt so they'd need to take all of that off to replace the sensor.  While they're at it, they'd do a timing belt job.  Total cost is about $1500.  I said I'd think about it and get back to them.

Does this sound right to you guys?  I think it's the cam sensor, not the crank sensor, since they said this sensor is behind the timing belt.  I replaced the CPS when I did the timing belt at 133k miles, which was 50k miles and probably 7 years ago.

Is it possible that there's a shorted ECU fuse?

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