Why wont my car fire

What is the fuel pressure? Are you sure you have no spark? If you are, is the distributor turning when the motor is cranking?

Roy

Did you spray carb cleaner into the intake to see if it fires up for a second?

Roy

It has not run in 9 years?

Did you replace the stator in the distributor? If you have power to the coil, then the only part you did not replace is the stator?

Roy

CAN YOU (WITHOUT BREAKING STUFF, LIKE THE PLASTIC BUTTON) SORTA "FORCIBLY" TURN THE ROTOR BUTTON AND IT'S SHAFT WITH YOUR FINGERS ONLY?

SOME CW AND CCW MOVEMENT (SLOP) IS NORMAL, AS IT WILL RETURN TO POSITION.

WHAT I MEAN IS, CAN YOU DIAL IT ON AROUND WITH YOUR FINGERS, AS IF IT WERE YOUR CLOTHES DRYER K. NOB !

IF IT TURNS, YOUR DISTRIBUTOR GEAR'S ROLL PIN IS MOST LIKELY SHEARED, ALLOWING THE DISTRIBUTOR SHAFT TO ROTATE WHEN IT SHOULD NOT. BASICALLY THE ROTOR BUTTON IS NOW NOT "IN TIME" WITH THE CAMSHAFT

YOUR TURN

THEY WON'T LET US GO HOME UNTIL YOU ARE RUNNING!

THE MEDIC

OK I READ THIS AGAIN! I SEE THE DISTRIBUTOR WAS REPLACED!

WAS YOUR ORIGINAL DISTRIBUTOR IN THIS CONDITION (AS I SUGGESTED IN MY LAST ANSWER). AND YOU DID NOT KNOW IT?

WHEN YOU REPLACED THE DISTRIBUTOR YOU DID IT THE EZ WAY (OUT AND BACK IN, AS IT WAS POINTING)

HAVING NOT GONE THRU THE "FIND TDC STEPS" (THE HARDER WAY) TO INSTALL YOUR NEW ONE

IF SO---NOW YOUR DISTRIBUTOR IS POINTING WHEREVER THE ONE WITH THE SHEARED PIN WAS POINTING (NOT IN CORRECT TIME)

JUST SLINGING WILD STUFF OUT THERE

THIS HAPPENED TO MY DAD'S '86 T-BIRD 3.8L. IT TOOK ME A WHILE, I FINALLY FIGGERED IT OUT, I HAD NOT TURNED MY CORE IN YET, I WAS STUMPED JUST PLAYING WITH THE OLD ONE I HAD REMOVED, I FOUND THE GEAR WOULD MOVE INDEPENDENTLY OF THE SHAFT

I TOO, CHEATED AND DROPPED THE DIST IN JUST LIKE THE OLD ONE CAME OUT!

THE MEDIC