Hy berts53, verify your timing one more time by removing number one spark plug, and feeling for compression coming out of the hole as you "crank" the engine over. If your vehicle has a resistor then it should also have a resistor bypass circuit to provide twelve volts to the coil while cranking the engine to start, does it have that circuit? Cranking is what is done to the engine with a hand crank or starter motor, running is what the engine does once the engine is started by the cranking. Are you saying that that the starter cannot "crank" the engine over so it can start if the conditions are correct for it to do so?
