I was feeling confused about the distributor, all was there for it to spark but it was'nt so I asked my friend Kris to take a look at it today and he did some preliminary checks and then said "looks like everything is ok" I guess it was just his presence but it was working now so I rigged up the gas can and we fired it up, sounded like a fine tuned sewing machine, no noises, missing, or other uh-oh's. Unfortunately we could'nt run it long as gas started leaking out of the accelerator rod but we were ecstatic that it was running and sounding so good, more than 30 years after it last had run. So I'll pick up a carb kit and start planning the gas tank resto that still has about a 1/4 tank.