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Message: <blockquote data-quote="duh09" data-source="post: 1218540" data-attributes="member: 10558">Haven't had much time to update, between my crappy jobs, spending the weekend in Nashville with some friends for Import Alliance, and trying to find a new job, I haven't touched the Mustang. For the record, the car has NOT ran since being pulled apart. It will turn over, but I am not getting any sort of actual ignition of fuel. No real sounds of anything other than the motor turning over. Doesn't sound like it's trying to start, just simply turning over.Here's the gameplan for Thursday when I'll actually have enough time to really tear into it again. I have bought a new set of wires and an Accel cap and rotor and I'm planning on putting them on and pulling the plugs to be sure I am getting fire to them. After I get the wires and stuff on, I'm gonna gonna double check the timing, make sure the balancer isn't off by marking the keyway like Rich recommended, run a couple set of jumper cables to the chassis to be sure it's not a ground issue, and give it a shot. If that doesn't get it, I'm going to check compression on all the cylinders and grab a fuel pressure tester too to double check that I am getting enough gas as well. I'm still having a hard time believing it's timing related for the simple reason that everything seems spot on. The timing marks are lining up and I cannot get it to run in any sort of moveable range of the dizzy. If the timing is actually off, it's going to be the timing chain and I'll check other things first.If I haven't found an issue with that, the upper intake is coming back off, I'm going to go through the wiring and checking it and have a friend who loves wiring to go right behind me and check it as well and replace just as many vacuum lines and vacuum connectors as I can. Will probably pull the valve covers and make sure the valve are where they need to be and whatnot and put it back together, and try it again.If that doesn't fix it, I'm going to call a local cheap but great mechanic to come over and give me a hand pulling the front end of the motor off, replacing the timing chain and checking all that to make sure my issue isn't there and to put some experienced eyes on the whole thing.If that doesn't fix it, I will be burning it to a crisp haha.Anything else you guys think could be the culprit that could and should be tested? Also, before I started having the overheating issues from my cooling system failing, I didn't have any sort of other issues out of the car. Ran like a 88 5.0 should.</blockquote>