Found On Road Dead

[GB SISSON]

Wife and I coming home from a nice Sunday lunch in the woodie, get to a rise in the road about 2 miles from home. Engine quits like I killed the ignition switch. I quickly shifted into neutral hoping to clear the rise so I could pull into Segault's triangle at the cuttoff to Obstruction Pass. As we slowed down with some hill still ahead I started pulling the rise with the starter motor for propulsion. We crested the slight rise and dropped into the roadside triangle across from my buddy Tim Segault's place. Tim was in his barcalounger but came out to help us. If you have read 'hunting/strumbling/missing, you will know of my distributor journey. New fuel tank, two fuel pumps(elec on a switch), two filters, 1/2 tank or ethanol free gas. 8 new autolite 216s yesterday. Fat blue spark from coil wire. No spark at any plug wire. Pull rotor, looks perfect. Snap it all back together, can't see anything down behind those belts. Still no spark at plugs. Tim tows us home behind his beat up '82 chev 6.2 diesel 4x4 dually, bed covered with logging equipment. We had to unhook his trailer and I had to move his excavator so we could back out of his place. When we reach my steep gravel road we need a head of speed for momentum, but a neighbor is loafing up the hill looking back at what we are doing,. Well we got home and in the morning before work I will get into that horrible front mounted distributor and see what is up. I hate the location and I cannot wait to get that new 8ba built and installed to end this misery. I know, I know that dual point distributor is a masterpiece of ford engineering, but give me a regular old distributor when I have trouble on the road. What do I look for at dawn's early light? And sorry for the rant, you guys know I DO love these vehicles.