No start, fresh rebuild, help anyone?

well back to the important issue, pull the intermediate shaft and check to see if it is bent and also that the bushing is new/ if it has been thru a hot tank and that has not been replaced its gonna be an issue sooner or later, and then there is the common misconception that the distributor can be just stuck in ther any old way and it will run properly....pull number one spark plug,put finger over the hole bump engine over till compression blows then line up the balancer the rest of the way using a screwdriver or plastic straw and a ratchet to move the crank fore and aft to find true top dead center and check it against your harmonic balancer, from there drop in the intermediate shaft so it ends up running paralell with the crankshaft, now...drop in the distributor with the rotor pointing towards the front of the engine and the vacume advance nipple pointing towards the passenger side of the engine and rotate counterclockwise till the points start to open or the reluctor is in line with the magnetic pickup......now for the important part set the cap on the distributor and make sure the rotor is inFACT aiming at the terminal inside the cap....If it is indeed pointing to that you may now wire the plugs in clockwise manner 18436572 if the rotor is in between two terminals on the distributor cap then you are one tooth off and no matter where you turn the distributor too it will NOT run properly...it will run but not properly, been thru this issue with a member or two that stand by there guns claiming I'm wrong you decide by checking just the way was stated here....check that intermidiate shaft and bushing first....good Luck to you grasshopper :)