Well figured out the fuel issue, just needed primed, I guess sitting dry for seven+ years it needed a little help. Pulled the fuel line from the carb, using a small funnel I poured some fuel down it until it stopped taking it. Let it sit a while and then turned over the engine, pumped like a champ (all over the intake), should have read your post first! Anyways after that had more ignition issues, I couldn't get it to fire, tried timing it by hand (not running, rotating the body of the distributor), couldn't get #1 to spark. Looked under the cap and the rotor was still at least 2 positions away from #1 and the vacuum advance was hitting the fire wall. Looks like someone installed the distributor wrong (the wires matched the cap position in the Chilton’s). Rotated all wires 2 spots and finally got a spark with the timing mark 9 degrees BTC. Hooked everything up and it fired on the first crank! Now the bad news, definitely a low end knock on #1 (based on the spark plug I knew there was at least some blow by issues, can't find my compression tester, probably in someone else's garage). Shut it down and will be pulling it tomorrow (have a '73 400 already rebuilt offered to me to get the bird on the road). At least I have the baseline I wanted, original out for a complete rebuild!
Amervo, I see you no longer give technical advice, but what you did give was right on the money for trouble shooting, I appreciate it. Hope I didn’t imply that I don’t know what I am doing, just when I posted I didn’t have time to even trouble shoot, just figured after 7 years what ever fuel was in the system was varnish or gum by then. Pontiac is new to me so would rather have some guidance on the mechanical issues instead of thinking I can just apply my Chevy knowledge to it. The manuals are for the restoration, but based on the wiring harness I am looking at (cleaned everything up but realized there is no regulator in the system and the alternator I think is still the original style) I needed a wiring diagram ASAP (thanks Vikki). Now I will have the room to really work on the harness with no engine in there.
