62 corvair wont start

so i have a 62 corvair monza, when we first got it would run bad and was hard to start. so we changed the cap rotor wires coil the wires had gotten removed and i had a hard time finding the firing order on the cap im pretty sure i got that down.however it still wont start i tried to prime the carbs with gas nothing even tried starting fluid nothing it is sparking any ideas.


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Re check your plug wires. The fireing order isn't correct...either at the cap, on the engine, or a combination of both...

Is the coil good? Wired right? Adequate? That would be the other thing to check.

the coil is brand new the enigine is clearly marked so it cant be that. the cap not sure the only thing i had to go off is a pic online. not sure where the wires go on the cap

Did you put the rotor back in.
I would check for spark at the plugs. If there is none there, check at the coil tower. If it ran before, and you changed all these parts it is most likely either points are set wrong, wires on wrong (this is my bet) or defective new parts.

If you pull the # 1 plug out , put your finger over the hole,and have someone bump the starter until is starts to blow your finger out. Bring up the timing mark by hand, look at the rotor and see which tower it is pointing to on the cap. This is your # 1 wire position. Follow the firing order from there. It is
1-4-5-2-3-6

There is no guarrantee where the #1 is on the cap. Someone in the past could have put the distributor in in a random position and moved the wires to compensate. The #1 cylinder is the one closest to the distributor.

Hope this helps, it has been a while since I tuned up a Corvair

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Chet

Having owned dozens of Corvairs( the only Chevy I ever liked) I'd have to think it pretty simple. The fact that you can't get even a gasp from it when priming the carbs would seem to indicate that you have no spark. If you did it would belch, backfire or make some noise that was generated by the ignition of the fuel, regardless of timing or firing order correctness. I would do as has been suggested and test the spark at the coil and then out the wires. I have seen many cases where the points are grounded through one of the wires touching the baseplate or having a missing insulator in the points. If you have spark, which seems unlikely, it would have to be something major and that seems more unlikely. I drove a Corvair van from NJ to here in the early 70s, and it had 3 or 4 cracked piston tops( found that out after one came off when I was driving home from work) and it would always start and run...you just couldn't downshift while decellerating or the plugs on the cylinder with the bad pistons would foul out. So they are pretty persistant little engines.They have cam gear drive and so there is no chain to fail.
I lean toward no spark.