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Starting issue. Help!!!

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Car ran great when I put it up last fall. Over the winter I send off my stock electronic distributor to a buddy for a recurve. I unfastened the cap and kept the wires on it so I wouldn't screw up the plug order when I got it back. Never got it back. I borrowed a distributor from my brother that worked in my car before and has been on the shelf ever since. I got a parts store rotor, put it on my bro's distributor, bumped the starter until timing was at 0, slipped it in so the rotor faced #1, put on the cap, cranked it. I got a few flashes on the timing light showing the timing was right. Then, the timing light stopped flashing. A few times I would let it sit a while with the battery on a charger then crank it, one flash and that's it. Every other vehicle I got is coil on plug so couldn't check the light, so got spare plug and put it on #1 wire and placed it on the motor. I got one spark twice, then no spark at all.:angryfire:

440 six pack, Mopar orange box, stock electronic distributor, Jacobs coil, Firecore wires. Just cleaned and gapped the plugs.

I'm thinking - step 1, get a matched cap and rotor. Maybe the rotor isn't a good match for the cap. If that don't work, step 2 get a rebuilt distributor. Any other suggestions?
 
Checked plugs, coil wire, power and ground on coil. Cleaned bulkhead connector last fall when I replaced the engine wiring harness.
 
Did you pull the coil wire out of the distributor cap, hold it near ground and see if it sparks? No spark, check voltage to coil.

Ron
 
this could be a faulty orange box or a bad or improperly gapped magnetic pickup in the distrib if its not a points style,
 
You said you cleaned the bulkhead connector... I would pull them again and reseat them and see if you get her going.
 
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