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I'd like to know which post on the distributor cap is No.1. Is it the one that corresponds to the feather on the arrow stamped on the side of distributor? I have an inkling I may be off one post after an engine rebuild, but Ican't find any documentation to corroborate my suspicion. Haynes manual says to set my timing at 4 degrees after top dead center. I have to set it to 10 degrees before top center to get car to run wellenough. It does run very rich,though.
 
I doubt if you are one post off. If you were, the engine would be so far out of time (180 degrees engine) that it wouldn't begin to run.
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Look on page 19 of you Haynes. The firing order is
1-3-4-2 Looking from above the rotor is going CCW. 4 & 3 closer to the firewall.
4 3
2 1

The spark plugs are #1 at the front and go back to #4 closest to the firewall...at least that is the way mine is set up.

With the #1 cyl at top dead center, the rotor arm should be pointing to the #1 position. Isn't that correct, gang?

Hope this helps!
 
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