Need Help! Motor turns....won't start

Me, I use a pair of pliers with rubber handles and pull the coil wire up and off the distributor cap about a 1/4 inch and see a good blue/white spark jump, BUT if your cap and rotor is bad you will need to do the same to a plug wire like I said earlier by using a small screw driver in the plug wire and put the metal part of the screw drive about an 1/8 inch away from the valve cover or any other grounded metal and see if it is throwing a spark. That's how I do it anyway.