I have a 97 3.5 swap and it shut off going down the road and wouldn't start back like it wasn't hitting so I started checking the timeing sensors and the cam sensor was broken severely and so I was trying to put a new one in and it wont sit flush I got all of the plastic and all the other junk out I jut can't figure out why it would have broken the swap has been done for over a year input appreciated thanks

 

Was it broken from inside? thats very weird, do you have any noise coming from the timing chain?

 

From the inside the car turns over with no weird noises except from listening to it you can obviously tell its not firing other than that no noises

 

I just changed a bank 2 (closest to front) sensor on my 04 - it was cracked internally as the harness was saturated with oil. The car would stall, but it would still start (failsafe mode). They're notorious, when I changed it I plugged in the connecter before I torqued it down because it's so easy to put pressure on the flimsy/awkward angle of the plug-in. If it's not sitting flush, make sure the part itself is not the bank 1, or the crankshaft position sensor (the latter has the plastic arm with the grounding bolt at a 45 degree angle rather than straight on) - the three sensors look really similar and parts guys sometimes mess up, but because the camshaft ones fail more frequently, they're triple the price of the crank sensor.

 

Anyonehave any idea why this would have broken like this I'm hoping none of the timing came loose