Thread: my 350 dosent start

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What some people are forgetting is you can place #1 where ever you want on the distributor as long as the rotor is pointing at that terminal.
I would double check the cam timing.

Originally Posted by nitrowarrior

It's okay Richard...Just remeber me when I need to pass tech...

You're "in like Flynn" my friend, no problems for you at tech.

I've just been sitting here the last few minutes and reflecting back over the scores of motors I've built for myself and friends and it dawned on me where I went wrong. With all of them, I installed the gears at noon/6PM and assumed that position was TDC #1 firing. I never removed the front cover to look at the gears once I had the chain in place. Never even thought about it. Of course, I had to rotate the motor several times after that with the heads on to set the valves. Once that was done, I did the thumb over the #1 hole deal to check for #1 firing position to install the distributor. Every motor I ever built fired on the first revolution and I just never gave it a thought about the noon/6 not being the #1 firing position. Shame on me.

[QUOTE=govettego]....I followed book to the letter on timing and according to the shop manual crank, cam , and distributor all exactly as they should be timed...

But still no matter what i do the car turns over but will not start... pops a little here and there but nothing.....
Let's try the distributor drop first... I never feel good about tearing down the labor intensive part of diving back in to the front of the engine. Simple things first and then dive in.

Which is why I said to check compression,it should be way out of whack with the cam out of time. Hank