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Your fuel pump may have gone bad. You can remove the air filter housing and spray some carb cleaner into it while somebody cranks the engine. If it starts, you know it has a fuel problem.
Remove the crank sensor and test the resistance between the two pins. You may find you won't have any, meaning the internal circuit is broken. If you have a very low resistance (usually under 200 ohms) then it is shorted and the PCM won't be able to read it. I also just fixed a car with this issue where the CPS sensor simply came unplugged.
The cam sensor is in the head near the throttle cables. The crank sensor is in the block near the oil filter. There aren't any sensors behind the balancer. If it is a problem with the security system the security light will be blinking. Does the vehicle start and die or just not crank or crank but not fire?
It sounds like you have a blow-en head gasket. The engine fills up with water and you reverse the rotation it relieves the compression so it will start. White smoke is always water. It does not take much to blow a head gasket on this make of car. I would pull all the plugs out and do a compression check. Look and see if you have water on any plug and mark that one.that will be the side it is on. If there is no water leak check the timing belt if it is a OHC. If not check the timing.
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