The only thing the motor will do is pop off occasionally then nothing.
Crank gear was set to 12 Oclock and Cam gear set to 6 O clock.
Then Motor was turned over to put Cam gear at 12 O clock and Crank gear at 6 O clock to get TDC on #1.
Distributor was installed pointing in the general vicinity of the Number one cylinder.
I have been using 2,1,8,4,3,6,5,7 firing order in the clockwise direction.
Have The Plug wires all connected to the correct cylinders, The Carb is spraying fuel.
Pulled the plugs and they are getting spark.
Tried re stabbing the distributor 180 degrees several times going back and forth and also pulled the driver valve cover and rechecked TDC compression stroke then restabbed the Dist and all that has ever happened is an occasional pop.
I have also tried both ways with the dist and advancing and retarding the dist.
As read above, What concerns me is rotating the engine 180 degrees before installing the distributor.. I've generally installed them "straight up" as in when the dot on the cam gear and the dot on the crank gear are opposed to each other. cam at 6 o'clock and crank is at 12 o'clock. Stick the distributor in with the rotor pointing at the #1 cylinder, and if I have to, use a long flat head screw driver to line up the oil pump drive shaft with the distributor gear. This will generally have you within a few degrees. And if your firing order was #2 and then #1, you're only compounding the problem of improper timing. That is why in my previous post I stressed the importance of verifying tdc, distributor orientation and firing order before beating yourself up too much. And mentioned that If you have concerns of actually being on true tdc, pull a spark plug and rotate the engine until #1 is at tdc (if your balancer has a good timing line use it as a reference to get in the area of tdc) then pull the valve cover and make sure the rocker arms are up and the valves are both closed on #1, this is true TDC. I about beat myself up over this almost same thing on an install last fall, but my experience told me to verify the distributor FIRST, and when I did I was off and a simple reset had us fired up and on our way to happy motoring!
