Thanks for the help folks.  I'm still troubleshooting it. Mark, I DO have my
transmission filled with oil, I promise, rigged up a nice long hose and big
funnel hanging from rear a/c grating worked great for filling it up.
 Miguel, I removed the plugs and #2 and #4 were carbon coated more than the
rest, I cleaned them all.  Scott thanks for the advice on raising the
rearend and letting the wheels spin a bit to get the oil all up in brand new
transmission, I'll be doing that once I get the engine started again.

Here's a photo of my distributor and TDC settings.
http://is.gd/aM4Dz

And some audio of me cranking the engine with timing set by eye as best I
know how. It fires just a little bit.
http://is.gd/aM4Cs

Thanks again to all.

-Ry
http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Benny boy <huotb@videotron.ca> wrote:

> When something work and you move/touch something and it's stop working, go
> back in time and put it the way it was before. Double check what you did
> that could have created the problem.
>
> Timing may be way off and it was somewhat ok with the plug wire not at the
> right position. Now you need to make sure TDC is right and concord with the
> rotor/distributor cap.
>
> What is wrong now is timing. Maybe the distributor gear is not align?
>
> The basic of TDC
> http://www.benplace.com/tdc.htm
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:47 -0500, Ry <rylincoln@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >ok so I made a mistake.  i had the spark plugs hooked up on the
> distributor
> >cap so that it was firing 1-2-3-4 instead of 1-4-3-2  even though I KNEW
> >what it was supposed to be, just a late evening working all day shoulda
> >taken a break mistake.
> >
> >Thing is it started right up that way though was rough and a bit loud(now
> i
> >know why!).
> >Now that I got it all hooked up proper like, it doesn't want to start, it
> >has sputtered a few times. :(  did i do something awful?
> >
> >I'm letting it rest right now and charging the batter(i didn't try so long
> >that i let the battery go dead, just knew it hadn't been charged in more
> >than a month)
> >
> >sigh... any hep?
> >-Ry
> >http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I hope you did manage to put oil in the tranny before running the engine
> >> much. You can ruin the dry tranny without driving the van, since the
> engine
> >> will always turn the tranny mainshaft.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ry wrote:
> >>
> >>> Update:
> >>> A few loose bolts on engine tin, timing not dialed in yet, coolant
> system
> >>> needs to be bled some more(not that hard imho) and DOH i forgot to put
> >>> trans
> >>> oil in BEFORE i bolted it all up and made it more difficult to do.
> >>>
> >>> BUT first try and it started right up :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>