Hey Guys! Thanks for all the great replies! Arnswine, yeah it was running when he recently bought the truck, not real good, but running. It stopped after he took out the dist.to replace the sprk adv. We did try starting fluid.Hi 4 on the floor! Yeah, the trk has been converted to 12v.He just bought the wrong new coil! Bakerallen, you know, there is a round place on the flywheel, just past the tri-A, and someone has painted it white(probably to make it easier to see when using a timing light) to be honest, I don't know if it has a ball in it or not. I will need to check. The one on our 50 Chev/216 does have the ball. I'm with you, I really think it is still a timing problem. Theres fire, and gas, and everything electrical has been replaced except for the dist., and it should start unless it is still out of time. One thing I can say about the points opening. When I have #1 on what I think is TDC, and the timing mark is lined up with the pointer, and the rotor is pointing to # 1 plug, the points have already opened, and have just closed at that point.
I usually place my finger over the #! sprk plg hole and wait for the puff of air to know when TDC is reached. I may refer to the manual, and turn the eng. by hand until the 2nd.valve closes, then I will know for sure. Then I will go back through the steps.
Thanks a bunch guys!
KT
