Here's another one of my long winded progress report.
No pictures this time but I just had to share this one.
I got the motor in the car. Won't start.
So I do the reset distributor thing over and over and over.
It's got spark and fuel won't start! I had dropped the cap while moving things around on the bench during the build, it looked ok but I got a new one any way.
Won't start! Not only wont start, it wont even hit and run badly.
Finally I put the distributor and coil on that I used on the run stand. Won't start!
Out of desperation I went to the shed and got a can of starting fluid. One squirt and vroom vroom.
3days and one squirt later and all's well in the garage again.
I can only think that the rings are not seated in yet so there is just not quite enough compression to hit. On the stand the cylinders were well oiled so I assume that they sealed up better. And every other time I started it the motor was still warm.