340 Not firing on all cylinders

Well 6 and 8 were reversed! So I swapped them and voila....it doesn't run at all!!! Piss me off.....

I must have knocked something loose at the cap, but I'm pretty sure it's flooded so I will wait to fight with it tomorrow night. I only had a few short minutes to fight with it.

What seems odd though is the entire distributor moves pretty freely and I knocked the vacation hose off. What is the purpose of the hose? To auto set the advance?