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Car has 104K miles on it and still going on original ignition components, so it was well overdue for a refresh.

I pick up the parts and head home to change them, and I get through the plugs, wires, cap and rotor just fine (after spending twenty minutes getting the 7mm on the underside of the cap off).

I go to start the car and...just the whir of my starter motor and nothing else.

So I check my work...I pull each plug wire off at the plug end, put a good plug into it and touch it to the block. Spark, in a rhythm, nice and bright. I repeat for all 4 cylinders.

By this point I am assuming the cap, rotor, and plug wires are all fine and installed correctly, so I suspect the plugs are the wrong plugs (temp range or wrong gap).

I remove all four plugs, swap with old and busted plugs. Try to start, nothing.

What could I have done wrong? Did I get the firing order off by one cylinder?

From the driver's side to the passenger(distributor side) we have cylinder 1234, correct?

So, looking at the distributor from the end, the top post is cylinder #1, clockwise around in the following order: 1342

I just can't figure it out.

Please help, as I need to have this on the road by Sunday night.

Thank you all in advance!

Brandon