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Popping through Carb, WILL NOT start?

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66 Tiger

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Going on day three of removing & re-installing my intake and now the car won't start.

I installed the carb with a new gasket, installed the distributor, what seems like 20 different times & it just refuses to start. ( this car HATES me, LOL! )

The only thing I'm getting is a nice popping out the carb & the occasional fire-ball depending on where I rotate the dist.

Just to outline my dist installation, I have the wife ( impatiently of course ) bump the starter until I feel air pushing out of the #1 cylinder, ( passenger front ) I then verify that the balancer is lined up with the timing pointer at TDC & install the distributor with the rotor pointing at the #1 cylinder.

I have done this over & over advancing and retarding the distributor a tooth and still nothing - I fear I have now reached my wits end.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance...
 

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Never mind - I forgot that I wired the disrtibutor all pretty & the location of my #1 wire on the cap WAS not lined up with the rotor.

Duh...
 

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The distributor is 120 degrees wrong is my first reaction, however your method should be getting it right. Have you checked the fireorder? Also, with all that cranking on the starter motor, do you have enough juice to start it ?
Also, could the carb or intake be drawing false air ?
 

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tihi!
 
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fvike said:
The distributor is 120 degrees wrong is my first reaction, however your method should be getting it right. Have you checked the fireorder? Also, with all that cranking on the starter motor, do you have enough juice to start it ?
Also, could the carb or intake be drawing false air ?
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You mean 180 degrees off, not 120
 
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