Originally posted by nystreetscene
Im not sure the timing is dead on but it should be close enough to where I would at least get a backfire from one end or the other. I had it running once before but it just one day decided to not start again. It was always a PITA to get started but now I get no kind of firing at all.
I'm really thinking it is your timing. You don't necessarily have to get a backfire if it was off. I was playing around with my timing a few weeks ago advancing it bit by bit. At one point it was running well, but when I went to start it again, the engine would not fire too. I was getting, what I am guessing, a slight amount of kickback when cranking. I’ve only read about that part on these forums, so I’m not sure if that was the case or not, but something just didn’t “feel right”.

I retarded the timing just the last little bit and it fired right up, and there was no apparent missing or backfires.