Well the only thing that I know of that will cause a backfire is timing, if you say everything is in line, and you have spark at the plug wires and the plugs are ok, the right ones and gapped right, your plug holes are free of water or oil, the plug wires are ok, I don't know what else to tell...
Well I think now that he has pulled the distributor, he'll have to go back and set everything, cam gears, crank pulley, and rotor pointing to #1, then put a timing light on it. If all the above are lined up it should at least start as long as nothing else is wrong.
Some have done it but I wouldn't take a chance, you don't want to be doing it again soon and worse if you get coolant in the oil. Be careful of that when you change out the HG.
New clutch and new flywheel doesn't make any difference I don't think. If you ever take it off any time you should mark the FW and the PP so you install it back on in the same place.
You have to put the clutch disk on the right way, usally is marked "flywheel side" or "this side to motor"...
That stuff can clog the radiator, and do a better job cloging the heater core. You might be able to run some Prestone radiator flush thru it, maybe it will help IDK.
You need to give us all the info so we aren't playing 20 questions.
It will start, which I take as, it fires but stalls out?
What is your timing set at, and did you use a timing light with the jumper wire? If you post again saying what jumper wire then you did not time it right and you need to...
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