Slant 6 won’t start after 4 months

Trying to get this car done and sold so I can start on the new one. 74 Swinger 225. Ran fine no issues before. I pulled the motor to paint the bay and now it won’t start. I have spark to the spark plugs. Have fuel now after blowing out the lines and priming. Tank was almost on empty and I poured 2.5 gallons of fresh 91 octane in, can see fuel spraying in with throttle applied. Wouldn’t start. Even tried to bottle feed the carb with starting fluid as the ole lady cranked it. Wouldn’t start. Spark plugs do look wet so I’m assuming I’ve flooded it but not sure why it wouldn’t start if I have spark and fuel? If plugs look wet then it should be getting fuel through the carb right? As in jets shouldn’t be gunked up? All I can think of is to check timing. Any other ideas?
Do you have spark? Check and see if the ballast resistors burn out if you don't have spark. One way to test without a voltmeter is just to take a jumper wire from the side from the feed side of ballast and connect it to positive side of coil then try and start it. From the sounds of it you've pulled the motor and maybe have some other things going on but let's start with the basic and pretend like you have the distributor and everything else right