318 has been sitting for 2 years

red_duster74 said
Yeah I am wondering the same thing. Kinda bothering me that its not firing up even with a quick spray of carb cleaner.
I have an msd distributor. Is it possible to insert the distributor 180 degrees off and cause the timing to be way off? Because thats all I can think of. I removed the distributor to give me more clearance to insert the top two bellhousing bolts. So I am wondering if thats the root of all this because I marked where the distributor was before taking it out and inserted at the exact same location. Any idea?

What do you mean by statically timing it? Do you mean to take out the spark plugs and get cylinder one to TDC?

Yeah I thought of that when I was first reading this. Could your dist be 180° off?

Get the engine to true TDC, then see what terminal the rotor is pointing to on the distributor cap. Make that #1 then go around the cap in the order of spin and set the wires to the firing order 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 making sure that there is enough room to turn the distributor without the vacuum canister hitting the firewall or intake manifold.