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Hy Josh_51GMC, okay those compression readings sound pretty good for that engine. No dead holes. I don't really understand what your talking about with the removal of the wire from the distributor cap and sparking by turning the distributor. What shop manual are you working with? The coil wire should spark everytime the points open and close, that's six times for every rotation of the distributor. They may be describing the static timing of the distributor, with the flywheel lined up with the timing mark, and the number one spark plug resting on a good ground, turn on your ignition, now slowly turn the distributor body until you get a spark in that number one spark plug, you may have to check to make sure the points are closed with the engine set at the timing mark before you attempt to get a spark, once you get a spark, tighten the distributor in that position. That should give you close enough timing to get it to start after all it was running before wasn't it. You can always fine tune it later with a timing light.