Sorry for another noob question. I'm in the process of learning and thank everyone here for the help in advance. My problem now is last weekend I went to start my car and it wouldn't start. I thought I had flooded it while I was messing around with the transmission kickdown cable so I left it sit with the plugs pulled and air filter off. Put it back together on sunday and still couldn't get it started. It sounded like it wanted to but just wouldn't. I had to leave till Thursday when I tried it again. After a couple tries I got it started. I tried to let it idle and it died. That was the last time it ran. I tried to start it today and nothing. To me it didnt even sound like it was trying to fire. I even tried starting fluid to no avail. All it will do is backfire. I pulled a plug and left it sit on the intake while the gf turned the key and I could see the spark. I'm still thinking that it has to be something with the spark because it wouldn't even start with the starting fluid. I'm not sure what to start checking. Almost forgot its a 72 olds 350 motor and it has petronix flamethower HEI distributor. Am I even on thre right track thinking it's spark? Before last weekend I had no problems getting the car started.