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Well, i was unable to post for some reason frpm any phone or computer. Any, we turned it over a few times and found out i wasnt getting fuel to bowl therefore not to carb or engine. So i checked fuel pump and figured somehow i must hv snapped the inlet tube when pulling out engine, so there was no abikity for the pump to pull the fuel in. I cked w Russ. Who said that its supposed to be phyically connected. I found a pump two hours away, so had to drive up to get it today, got it installed. Mosquitos started tearing me up so i am going to hook up fuel line tomoro and give it another go.

Thanks for checking,

Got the fuel pump changed, tried to start,  fuel going to filter bowl and is full.  Put some gas in carb, several times,   getba puff now and then, but iveral, not getting a spark to fire it off.  Checkwd my plug connections, distri connectiins.  Coik connectiin.  I hv the petronix and am poisive those are correct.  Attached picture of coil.  Is tgerecany othr wire that goes here?  I hv a yellow wire from firewall, the red petronix, and the little black wire from on top of tge coil at positive,   a blk wire from petronix on the negative.

Were else shouod i look for?

Tachomter to monitor rpm at start up.  

Can you time it before it gets going or is there enough spin for the light to pick up before it starts?

So jist hook up like always and shoot lite at timing mark?  With some ome turning the enhigine over?

Will gv it a try tomoro.  Battery on charger for tomoro

I again, pulled distrib and 1st plug. Had brother plug 1st plug hole, turned engine until he felt outwatd pressure on thumb. Continured to roll engine till mark hit tdc at zero. Lined up the dist till it rolled in to poit at the one spark plug. Put dist cap on w one plug wire socket on cap is direct over the over the pointer. Put all bk tigether. Thats right from book.

Is there any addl wiring im missing? I hv 2 wires from petronix that go to the coil. The solenoid on top of coil goes to pos coil xonnection and a yellpw wire that comes from firewall that i had a picture of before breakdown of engine that hooks to pos coil post.

Is there another connection i hv left out thats required?

Tony, last time we tried b4 i pulled out today, i did some advancing w no chg. Maybe tomoro, go other way.

Am getting no hint that its even close.

Late up w insomnia, i did some reading,  somewere tontest coil. Then test for spark at plug.  So, this a.m. i did that, coil was out of range at the center positive test, and  tenth from being out on the positvie and negative post test.   So, i figured maybe not getting spark at all. So for 28.oo got another coil, tested and it was in ranges for both test.

Pulled #1 plug w wire attached.  Got in darknplace in engine,  turned on the video, and tyrned it over a couple times,  a whiteish yello spark was observed,  so at least i know i hv a spark.

Will continue with suggestions put out by Tony an Mark when i can find someone to help.

Just throwing out what i hv done in meantime.

VIDEO ATTACHED!!   After chging coil, hooked up timung light, adjusted, dist back to 0.  No start. Retarded it, seemed more willing to fire. Backed a little more and it took off.  Wouldnr hold.  Couple more times and it finally fired, timing light looks at about retarded 10, using the appx size of scale.    It smokes like hell under driver exhaust.  May be burning off sime oil from when i ran the priming process to get oil to rockers.  Also noted a pretty significant gas leak at carb.  Enough to warrant shut off,   gonna need a new gasket set i think, there, its tightened to proper torque.  SO, will wait on that to come in, change out, and try again and fine tune a bit.  You can see the smoke volume,   

https://youtu.be/CunZrabadWQ

Any thoughts. Questions , concerns appreciated

Yeah, finally, but lots of breakin in left and timing adjustment after i chg out carb gaskets,  it was really pouring out.   Not sure why.  But will try to tackle tomoro.  

Nope, just removed it and replaced it

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