Advice Needed - Can't Start Rebuilt 273

Hey Val, in your pic of the timing chain/gears, dot to dot is when #6 is on compression. One more full rotation of the crank would give you #1 compression.
Also I had big mixups with dads 273...my stupidity. We were going off the balancer and the marks were wrong on it for some reason. Use a piston stop, or your wire. rotate over till its at tdc. Mark the balancer, reverse the crank rotation, mark tdc AGAIN. You should have 2 seperate marks. Mark the middle of those marks, and that is TRUE TDC. We f'd around with it for sooool long, then did this TDC method(thanks to 67dart273) and it works aces! Your balancer might be off in the markings....good luck, keep us posted!