Hello All...I have a 1947 Ford COE with a SBC. I did not do the swap but the previous owner did and he did a great job. However some of the work he did was very back yard pro so I have gone through all that I thought would fall off at 4000 RPM's which was the alt bracket and throttle return....he mixed the flathead ford bracket with SBC....little duck tape goes a long way. I'm now running an Alan Grove Alt bracket and a Lokar throttle set up. While doing some of these upgrades I replaced the intake manifold gasket along with the valve cover gaskets. Now comes the problem of timing...The truck runs but not great. I have pics of the motor before I touched it and new pics and the Vacuum advance canister is way off. Before it was at about 7 o'clock now its at 11 o'clock. I just don't know how it has manage to run well enough to drive the truck. While the car is running I tried adjust in the proper direction from 11 to 7 o'clock and the truck wants to die. If the truck dies and I try to restart it and I do not return the dist. to it's location of start up it will not fire and I get poping and all kinds of noises. through the carb. I'm not a mechanic buy any means so I'm at a loss....I'm going to try and time it tonight any thoughts on getting the dist in the right locating... Thanks