TopspeedLowet

You don't have a lot to look over. Here are the rules. You must have Air, Spark and fuel to fire an engine. First, Do you have fuel? Is the carb full of fuel? Push an accelerator pump in either end to be sure both bowls have fuel especially the primary bowl, Front one. Then take a new spare spark plug and hook it to the coil wire before the cap and ground it some where you can see it from the cranking position where ever that may be. If you have that then try it again thru the cap and rotor by reinstalling the coil wire and using one of the plug wires. Now if that checks out and you DO have compression then the timing may be way off. Next remove the drivers side front spark plug and put one of your fingers over the hole and roll over the engine while your finger is blocking the hole, ( DO NOT PUT YOUR FINGER IN THE THREADED HOLD PLEASE) determine by trial and error where the pressure first begins to build under your finger and stop immediately. You must stop exactly then and then look at your harmonic balancer to see if the line on the HB is heading toward the 0 on the timing tab. If so you are in the home streach. Now the harmonic balancer will rotate with the top moving towards the driver side, that is clockwise from the front view. Now stop the engine rotation when the timing line is about an inch from lining up with the 0 mark. What you can do is static time the engine from here. I remove the cap and inspect which direction the rotor is pointing at this position. It had better be the plug that is on the drivers front cylinder. If so and the firing order is correct that fla1976 instructed you to earlier. Now the money shot, while the crank is about 1" before the 0 mark I turn on the ignition and loosen the distributor enough to keep it tought but easy to move. Swing the distributor clockwise about 1.5" in one direction then back the other. I would leave the #1 plug wire off and have a spare plug grounded in plane site to do this. The plug will fire when the distributor is swung back and forth. Average the exact spot that the spark occures and snug the distributor down. The engine WILL start now and you can time it exactly now that it runs. This is everything and even the simplest way to static time a new engine. You will be dam close due to the 1" setting before TDC. If your timing tab has degrees in it set it at 25 deg for initial try. Let us know what you find. Improper mechanical settings like valve lash and valve timing can cause problems too if this doesn't help you out.