Won't start

Bah! I thought I had a quick and easy job to replace the control valve on my /6 distributor today. I made the mistake of not marking the rotor, figuring if I was careful, no problem inserting it back in the same place. Dumb.

I'm not real familiar with finding TDC, but I'm fairly certain I have the rotor in the correct spot now after pulling plug #1 and turning the motor by hand to the timing mark (twice). I stuck a piece of vacuum hose in the plug hole and figured out that the second time around I must have been on the exhaust cycle because the hose went in way further than my first visit to the timing mark. So with the rotor pointing at #1 with the 0 degree mark matching up with the notch on the pulley and with my relative certainty at being at TDC, I tightened down the distributor.

The first time through this, I forgot to adjust the magnetic pickup on my Pertronix Ignitor, so after making sure the gap was about .030 again, the engine won't fire.

I thought maybe I flooded the stock carb, so I used the pen in the butterfly trick, but still nothing. Except when I occasionally flood the carb, I never have problems starting this car. It could sit for a year and it always fires up on the first crank.

What's my next step? I'm pretty frustrated with a job that I thought would take less than an hour.

Thanks...

-JP