Stuart and Everyone else. Again thanks for the help. I think Cletis may have found the problem. I do have the valve cover off, but didn't pay any attention to the valves, because I was using the timing mark as a guide. I will check today and see if I am on the wrong end of the motor. To answer your questions, I have a stomp style starter. The truck has been changed to 12 volts. I don't have a multi-meter or a volt meter, because I unfortunately wouldn't know what to do with it if I had one. The truck will not start, I do get and occasional pop, but that is it. The motor was completely rebuilt, so it has yet to run. ANOTHER QUESTION: When I first got the truck, before I did anything at all to it, it had a resistor on the firewall in the line going to the plus side of the coil, with a wire then going from minus side of the coil to the distributor. I noticed when I was cranking it trying to get it to start, the wires to and from the resistor were getting hot, and the coil was getting very warm. Is this normal because I was cranking a lot, or do I have a problem? I now have a starter that I believe was orginally installed on a truck with a 12 Volt system. Do I still need the resistor? Thanks Allen
