Woke up a little before 5am and instantly all the parts that arrived were asking me to come join them in the garage. Parenthetically the dehumidifier said it was about 80% humidity. I have the dehumidifier running as much as possible. It will generally stay below 50% in there. If not within about 5 years the steel tool tops will start to show rust.
I installed the Pertronix EI on the distributor (AMC 327 Pertronix conversion w/ pics - International Full Size Jeep Association) <- Someone else's post with pics. I put the distributor back into the engine. I stopped to get donuts and jalapeno kolaches for the family, filled up swimming pull for my daughter and then...
My 12 year old daughter had taken photos of the distributor as it was removed from the truck and disassembled, but they were deleted.
Sooo my son and I found top dead center on the #1 cyclinder to insure the distributor was in correctly while watching my 3 year old do tricks in the pool. The distributor was off. The rotor was at about 1 o'clock and needed to be at 5 o'clock. Re-installed (3 eyes on child). Hooked up inline spark detector. It lit!
Sprayed ether into carb and it fire, for about a millisecond.
The number one plug looked nasty. I will replace all the plugs tonight during my usual 2 hour insomnia period. Later I will run a temporary fuel line into a portable fuel tank and see if we can't get it to idle.
Going to play with Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head with daughter