No start, fresh rebuild, help anyone?

67Dart273 said
Actually MOST American V8's are this way. That is, with the "by the book" marks IE the cam at 6 o'clock, and the crank mark at 12 o'clock, no6 is ready to fire.
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67Dart273 said
Sorry buddy, but you ARE wrong on this issue. ANY engine that does not suffer from "odd/ even" fire such as V6's and some industrial 4 bangers will run just fine NO MATTER where the dist or imtermediate gear is. All you need is enough swing on the distributor body/ vacuum advance to adjust the timing.
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I'm still worried about how much, no fire, cranking has gone on? Might be at a point where you should pull a valve cover and try to go thru a passage and shoot some more assembly lube at the cam?