Point gap

A Body 440 WHY NOT said
did it run before you changed the points ?
I did see one time a set of points that were bad out of the box ( shorted to ground).
Start at the basics
Power going to the points
If you crank the motor with a test light on the wire coming out of the points ( to the coil) it should flash. if it doesn’t , it’s the points . If it does , it’s something else
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It did run before I got my damn hands on it. I put a D4B manifold on it and a 4 barrel Edelbrock carb on it. Replaced the stock manifold and stock carb with them. Took the transmission out to get rebuilt and took the distributor out because the engine might of tipped back causing the distributor to hit the firewall