If I have spark and fuel, why won't it run???
What else could be going on???
I may just give up and take it to a shop that knows what they're doing...

 

You need spark, fuel AND compression...

How do you know you have fuel delivery? Your plugs are sparking? Or you have spark off the coil? We need more info to help you out.

 

whats the psi on your fuel pressure ?

 

I was hoping something simple like ignition relay or something if there is such a thing???
Can't test fuel pressure now. Have to get a decent fuel pressure gauge. The one that I was borrowing from AutoZone had a leak.
Will save this post and get back with you after I get a decent fuel pressure tester.
I've pulled the plenum and there are no visible leaks as it turns over... Also, I just put in a new coil, distributor cap and rotor. Plenty of spark.
Also, tried shooting startin g fluid into the intake when the plenum was on. No go...
Thanks.

 

bad compression then?

 

Probably not fuel if it would not hit, try to start, using starting fluid. Yet it still might be wise to check fuel pressure to be sure the fuel pump is up to snuff being as you said it had spark.

Reminds me of something that happened to me years ago. I had came home on leave from the Air Force in about 1967. My parents owned a country store, the next afternoon I fill up with gas them headed to town. I make it about a mile down the road and my 57 Chevy quits. So I check everything out, 1st I take the air filter off and looked down in the carburetor, open the throttle wide open, I see fuel. Them I check to see if I have fire and I do. I mess around about an hour them walk back home and call the Chevy house.

A classmate of mine is working there and he is the one they send out, he checks everything I had and it comes out A OK. Finally after about an hour he pulls me the 6 miles to their shop.

All of the Chevy mechanics had put their head under the hood of my 57 Chevy, no one seemed able to figure what is going on, its got fuel, its got plenty of fire, the timing is OK, it should start.

An old man walked up asking what's the trouble, having seen all five Chevy mechanics looking under the hood of my 57 Chevy. One of them tells him, as he walks off he said, "Believe I would check to see what is in the gas tank."

They did, it was full of water, except for the 2 to 3 gallons of gas that was in it before I filled up with gas, or thought I filled up with gas. The gas man brought my father a load of water and I was the 1st one to get gas. As soon as I found out the trouble I called my father, but I was tool late, several others had already bought gas, and were having the same problem I was.

There were over 20 different cars and trucks besides mine that got in on this, with about 15 of them having been towed to a shop by wreckers. And it probably would have been many more if this water had been put in the regular gas, the water was only in the premium grade gas.

The gas man put over 1,000 gallons of water in the premium grade gas tank. I might add, he made sure to go to each customer apologizing for what took place and made sure all of them were compensated for their trouble and That every penny in shop bills they acquired because of the water did not cost them. Because of that my father did not lose a single customer.

 

could be a clogged cat do you get air out of the exhaust when you try to start it?