truck will not start HELP!!!

[screamin86]

well i just fiished putting headers on the 86 silverado and building a y pipe and instaling a highflow cat. i also put in new plugs gapped correctly new wires edelbrock carb and new fuel line with clear filter. well i double checked and rechecked all my plug wires before i even tried to start it up. go to crank and it seems to struggle to turn the motor over. the original started started to struggle and smoke so i put a new one on that i had laying in the building. still the same thing. i went as far as putting the batt in out of my yukon and it will turn over but get to a point like the timing is way off and it will not crank or struggles. anyway im out of ideas and i need to get this truck on the road before next week. anyone got any ideas?

[jcormier89]

is the carb getting gas?

[screamin86]

yup i made sure of that. filter is filling full of fuel carb is squirting. it ran fine before i took the stock manifolds off and changed the plugs/wires.

[r6z4o6]

If your timing was way advanced/retarded to begin with, maybe you are putting number one wire on the wrong post of the distributor.

Did you MARK the distributor as to where the #1 wire came off of it? If not....

I would pull #1 plug, find TDC, pull the dizzy and restab it with the rotor facing the #1 cylinder and then put your #1 wire on that post and go from there. Start from nothing, cause you have too many unknowns.

[Jetsetterak]

by chance did you remove the distributor? I have put the distributor in 180 degrees off and cause similar problems.

[screamin86]

i never pulled the dizzy

[DBRODS]

Make sure the firing order is going the correct way on the dist. You could have the wires going the wrong way...

[jcormier89]

yeah its gotta be the wires

[screamin86]

I believe its something in the wires too. The po that had it replaced the intake gasket at one time and i know that the dizzy was turned more towards the carb than it should be im thinking that maybe its a little off and that he had the wires moved onto diffrent posts for it to work correctly. Any that ive ever done the 8 and 1 wire are the front two on the dizzy and thats the way i reconected them. Im gona go back through tomarrow and move all the wires over one post each way and see if it starts if not ill pull the dizzy and start over. While ive got it out it will be a good chance for me to go ahead and replace the leaky intake gaskets.

[RedHeartbeat]

pull the spark plugs and crank it. Sounds like you hydraulic locked your engine with fuel or something else possibly.