Kenn: you forgot you also need a rotor, cap, plug wires, hoses, coil and bracket, battery, fan belt, battery cables, a new exhaust, new tires, and a paint job. Well, I am being flippant for a reason. If you don't want to spend much money on this vehicle right now and you have another Kaiser that runs, you only need to buy a few minimal number of items. You want to see if the engine runs, right? But it doesn't have to run long (less than 2 minutes at a time) for an initial evaluation so you don't need a radiator, hoses, generator or fan belt. As for the distributor, you take the one off of your running car along with the plug wires. As long as you don't rotate the distributor in it's mounting collar, your won't change the timing - and for purposes of getting the engine started, you don't have to connect the vacuum line. If you don't have a carb, you will have to get one since it isn't as easy to switch carbs as it is distributors. You don't even need a fuel pump. Put a short steel line on the carb and turn it upward and put a funnel on the end. Pour just enough gas from a small cup into the funnel to fill the carb. Once the carb is full, it has enough gas to run as much as 1 minute. You do need to cover the fuel pump hole on the side of the block either with a non working pump or a block off plate.
