buddychiefguy quote- Oh and as far as testing the timing out. The motor idles fine anywhere from 6 degrees to 25 degrees. I tested 6 degrees and when you take off it is really sluggish and knocks. At 15 it starts to miss on accelartion. At 8 it is a little of both. Weird.

Thunderbucket quote - If you read 'Buddychiefguy's' post, it sounds like he dropped his distributor in while losing his reference point on the distributor body ( usualy indicates where to start from ) and now it sounds like he has the timing 180* out,,,he can get it running but cant adjust the distributor enough to get it to run well,,,which is usualy because the vaccume advance module will prevent further rotation.
If he had the distributor in correctly, then the #1 on the cap when mounted (on the notch,) would align with his rotor.
And yes you are right,,,IF,,,,,,he could get it on the propper degree mark with a timing light, he would already have the rotor in alignment with the number 1 leed.

LT1- i read his post and it he was using a timing light to check the dif. degree settings. i don't know how much more room he needs. so im gonna say it again, if you can set the timing with the timing light(i would think the right timing should be somewhere between 6 and 25 degrees) it dont make no dif. where #1 is in the cap.