[springer]

I was out on vacation last week and just got back to this. What I've done so far to no avail...

1. Pulled the plugs
2. Let it air out for the week
3. Drained and changed the oil (which did have some fuel in it)
4. Tried to start... same result, exhaust coming from the tailpipe,
a few pops and then backfire. Seems like it wants to go I just
don't want to keep cranking on it if it backfires.
5. Pulled distributor, rotated crank 180, put distributor in rotor
pointing to #1 wire... resulted in no apparent firing (so I
assumed it was set to #4 not #1)
6. Pulled distributor, rotated crank 180 to set back to what I
assume is #1, again resulted in few pops and backfire

So now I believe I am going to check the individual fuel injector to ensure I am getting an equal amount of fuel to each cylinder as it seems that again cylinder #3 has fuel dripping from it. Does it make sense that fuel would drip out of the head? Seems to me like it should be sealed and fuel should not even potentially leak out.

I was also thinking of running a compression check to see if I have good compression.

I'm getting pretty frustrated with this thing as I've been trying to figure this out for a while. Hate to do it but I feel I'm about at the point where I'm going to send the thing out to have somebody else work on it.