put the car in top gear, push car forward to rotate engine. Either watch for timing mark on front pulley or pull valve cover and watch cam lobes on #1. Pull some plugs if necessary. That gets you tdc. At that point, the rotor should be lined up with #1 pin on the dist cap. From there you can do rough timing with test lamp method. One engine is running, set max timing advance (plenty of instructions on FAQ)
Then I'd look at choke operation. If choke is working you shouldnt have to pump the gas, etc. Plenty of choke threads on FAQ