wont start

TDC on a slant is pretty easy. Stick a pushrod into the #1 spark plug and run the piston up slowly by hand (on crank or just pulling the fan belt with all the plugs pulled) until the pushrod jams and stops the piston. Mark the damper with a grease pencil at 0, Now hold the pushrod steady where it jammed and rotate the crank backwards until the piston raises up and hits the pushrod again in the opposite direction, mark it at 0. Now bisect the 2 marks you made and put a permanemt mark with white-out on the damper. Move that to 0 and you are TDC. Use thumb in hole to determine if you are on the compression stroke or exhaust stroke. IF you have a timing wheel, you can check cam timing with a slant cam card. If you are pointing at #1 tower at TDC or are JUST before it, your cam timing is correct. Make sure your valves are adjusted too. A slant will start with a crappy base timing, its pretty resiliant to bad gas too, with a 7.5-8:1 CR. I started a motor with an open propane torch hovering over the empty carb once just to see if it would start, sure did! I think Mopar even had a procedure to smog cars with propane or set something...?