would a bad ground stop the distributer coil from sparking?

 

Yes, of course it would

 

the ground from my valve cover is in pretty rough shape and rusted and my car wont start and the main relay in the distributer is fine but the coil wont spark, should i try and sand the ground?

 

buy a new ground. happend to my car when my ground wire got old and rippd

 

i just went down to my car and sanded off the ends of the grounds, they look good again but still wont start, this time i pulled out the first ignition wire and looked at it but i noticed this time that only the very tip of it was wet with gas, and yes the same gas has been in it since october which i never thought to get rid of, i filled it up the day i got it and its still on half full(or was when the problem happend) and also my guages wont work ATALL, i checked my insturment fuse and it looked warped and burnt so i replaced it and they still wont work, they got burnt a tiny bit in the fire in the corner but they should still work, it was on the plastic, under the dash there is no fuse as to ignition or anything like that so i dunno, under the hood theres a battery fuse an 80a and its fine and there's an I G fuse, i dont know what that is but its fine so all the fuses are fine and this is car is killing me, ill pay someone to blow it up -_-

 

aight check if you have fuel going in first if you have no fuel then you ll have no spark at all n if you have fuel n still no spark its ur distributor