cranks = turns over.

Perhaps your "turn over", you mean to say "fire"?

 

Yes. I meant fire. thank you.

 

Since the dizzy was out, I would look for a loose wire there.
Also, check for a closed choke.

 

Do you have fuel at the carb? Do you have spark at the plugs? If so, pull a plug and see if they are fouled.
Joe

 

Do you have fuel at the carb? Do you have spark at the plugs? If so, pull a plug and see if they are fouled.
Joe

Fuel is getting to the carb; I see it shooting out of the squirters. I do have spark and I just replaced the plugs.

 

The motors locked up? It won’t turn over at all?
if that’s actually what’s happening you need to find out why before you touch the key again. Drop something in the valley?

 

I just reread that.
Your engine turns over just fine. “Crank”
your engine does not fire. “Start”

I agree with the above.
Start simple. In order.
Put the crank shaft at tdc.
Pull the dist cap and make sure your timed correctly. On the compression stroke. Not #6
pull a plug and check for spark.
check The float level.
does gas come out of the boosters when you pump the throttle.
If that all checks out it will start. Then you can go from there and look for a vac leak.

 

I just reread that.
Your engine turns over just fine. “Crank”
your engine does not fire. “Start”

I agree with the above.
Start simple. In order.
Put the crank shaft at tdc.
Pull the dist cap and make sure your timed correctly. On the compression stroke. Not #6
pull a plug and check for spark.
check The float level.
does gas come out of the boosters when you pump the throttle.
If that all checks out it will start. Then you can go from there and look for a vac leak.

Yes. Thank you, that is what I will check. I thought I dropped the distributor in the same position but it may be off. I will bring to TDC and pull the cap. The distributor should be pointing to cylinder 1 at TDC, correct?
Yes, I checked and I do have spark.
I bolted up the carb right out of the box, so the floats may need to be adjusted, but gas is coming out of the squirters when I activate the throttle.

Thank you for the checklist

 

Are you sure you tightened the distributor hold-down bolt? The timing may have moved enough to prevent start-up.

 

So it was running perfect and now its not starting and not even a little bit starting, and you didnt tinker with anything? Does it have points or an HEI Ignition? When my ballast resistor went out I had spark but it wasnt enough spark. You may have flooded it also, does it smell like a gas station?

 

UPDATE

The car is firing again and running well. I set the engine to TDC, aligned all the plug wires and she fired right up. Thank you all again for your help!

 

Glad you worked it out!👍