Make sure I'm not overlooking something....

I'm a bone stock 327 that hasn't run in 5+ years....

started up after priming and ran for a while - next day it started but would not stay running - now several days later - > No Fire!

I crank like an sob - I made sure I was TDC and rotor pointing to #1 wire - I have brand new plugs, cap, rotor, points, coil, fuel filter - I get juice at the bat terminal of coil - I get juice from coil to inside top of cap - I have checked continuity on all plug wires - I pulled fuel filter and shoot gas half way to the moon when I crank -

I put tester to end of #1 plug wire, crank - no juice
I put tester in #1 hole of dist cap, crank - no juice
I put tester to Dist terminal of coil - no juice (my '67 has juice at this terminal when I crank - so I'm going to look at that tomorrow)
I'm also going to do a compression check tomorrow (blew thumb off hole at TDC)

I got fuel, assuming compression, gotta be missing spark....

What am I forgetting???? Why don't I get juice in wire or cap hole? How can I tell if rotor is hitting contacts in cap?

It's gotta be something really stupid.....

Steve

Did you install the condnsor when you changed the points? Was the dwell set right?
Also check the coil negative term. with a test light while someone cranks the engine. If the testlight stays lit then the points are bad/miss adjusted. If the light flashes than the points are working and you have a bad coil. If the light goes out or never goes on than you have shorted/miss adjusted points.

Another thing would be---if you left any kind of voltage going through the points without the engine running, then they'll "burn".

We had replaced the points in my son's '63 Chevy II, and within a few days they had already gone bad---because of a flakey ignition switch.

We have since switched to the Ignitor (replaces the points system with a hall-effect electronic system).


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David
Camaro - '68 327 Coupe, '86 Z-28 IROC 305 TPI
Corvette - '73 Mako Shark II replica (http://makoshark2.com/djunod/), '79 L-82, '82 Cross-fire, '01 Coupe

I got it!

When I connected the wire from the points to the coil (neg term) - I had grounded it out on the distributor base -

I re-attached - - - fired right up!

Thanks for the suggestions guys...

Steve