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[Rustic0ne]

I am the happy owner of a '73 Fury as an aside, a 94 Cherokee, 2 door.
The frustration today is with the Fury.... A great little car, wait, little?... No... But a great car, until I flooded the motor and cant get it to restart...
Replaced the carb float, carb is clean. Car barely coughs but wont idle... I have spark, I have compression, but can I check timing without the car running....?....

 

[detmatt]

Welcome to the site from the Motor City!
You can't set the timing where it should be for optimum performance but you can see if you're in the ballpark by getting your number 1 cylinder to TDC on a compression stroke then remove your distributer cap and see if the rotor is lined up with the number 1 tower on the cap. I'm ashamed of myself for the long sentence.

 

[Big_John]

I'll bet the spark plugs are fouled.

If you flooded the engine as you said, chances are the plugs are wet and won't fire.

 

[twostick]

Hold the throttle wide open while cranking and it should fire and clear itself. I assume fresh gas? How cold is it?

If it ran before, it still should so the timing shouldn't be an issue. Unless of course it peeled all the nylon teeth off the timing gear. If that is what happened it will sound like it only has compression on 2 cylinders when you crank it.

Kevin