Pull off a plug wire and see if any fire is to your plugs, you will need someone to try and start the engine with ignition switch on. If there's no fire use a volt or test lite to see if you have voltage to both small terminals on the coil. You need to make sure the points are open when doing this and the ignition switch on. If you have voltage clean those points with some 320 wet or dry until shiny. Make sure they 're gapped correctly. If they're pitted replace them. See if it will start.
If you have fire and a no start your plug wires could be installed wrong or the distributor may be out of time. To check this pull No1 sparkplug near the radiator & bring that piston to TDC on the compression stroke. Once you have No1 piston at TDC your timing marks should aligned & both valves should be closed. Remove the distributor cap & see where the rotor is pointing. It should be pointing to your No1 plug tower. Hal
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