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Sarge, I can only guess where to tell you to start looking, however, 1st thing to check is that you have the distributor timed to fire at the top of the compression stroke on #1, not the top of the exhaust stroke by accident. The engine timing marks on a TE is different than my TO, I think there is a TDC mark (notch) on the crank pulley on the TE that lines up with a notch on the gov. housing cover, but that may be hard to see with the radiator in place. The firing order is 1342. With your ignition ON, and your # 1 wire connected to a grounded spark plug, you should be able to crank the engine by hand, hold your thumb over the #1 cylinder plug hole to feel the compression stroke, and see your spark plug spark when you hit the top of your compression stroke on cylinder # 1 (in the front). Pull the drain plug on the bottom of your carb & let gas run out into a small coffee can. The gas should pour out freely, not dribble, and fill a 1 pound coffee can in less than a minute or so. That will insure you have good fuel flow to the carb. Make sure you don"t have mice nest, or other obstructions in the exhaust pipe, or in the air intake filter.... been known to happen to tractors that hae been sitting for a while. If you are totally stumped, try running compression checks on each cylinder, should get ~80 PSI or better in each cylinder with the starter cranking the engine, all the plugs out, and throttle open full. George
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