Really weird ignition issue...

64 posts.
do it this way. no do it that way. no, that's not the way, here, do it my way.
I can't believe something so simple got to be so complicated.
With the distributor out, this should have been a two minutes or less diagnoses.
With the distributor still installed, it takes a bit longer simply because it's harder to get up in there to see.
Do you want me to write another novel to explain it?
Wait, I'm asking the OP!
oh how magnanimous of you!

please all knowing and great king of the far north, bestow your wonderous knowledge and savvy upon us, the great unwashed masses, for we live only to read your magnificent prose!