Any water in the gas? Remove the water trap bowl at the bottom of the petcock, (gas valve). Any water or trash in the bowl? Drain a cup of gas from the tank. Any water or trash in the cup? Dump it, clean it and re-mount it, ( not all bikes have a water trap bowl ).
Get a fresh set of stock NGK spark plugs. Clean or replace the air filter. You seem to be pretty thorough in what you have done, but since plugs and filter weren't mentioned I had to ask.
Assuming you are getting air, gas and spark, and the timing is correct then it should run. Right? Not necessarily. Can the bike breathe? If pressure cant get out of the tailpipe the bike won't run. Mufflers can sometimes collapse internally. This restricts the flow of burned gasses. causing backpressure. If nothing goes out of the cylinder then nothing goes in.
Try removing the exhaust pipes. Now see if it will run. Get back to me because I would like to know what you find.
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I found a website that had you set the points with a gauge instead of static timing them and the thing fired a couple of times... I thinjk it will need new plugs and I have new NGK plug ends coming for the wires. Thanks for the info tho on the fuel and mufflers tho but I know the mufflers are clear. The biggest problem I have ever had in what I call massaging a bike back to life. Also I found that the plug wire ends also can cause a big problem because they will actually ohm out as being good but won't conduct electricity to the plugs if carbon or dirt is restricting the flow. The only way to test these is to pull the wires and put a plug in to make sure that you have a bright spark. Again thx for the advice.
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