Bring cylinder number one piston to TDC (Top Dead Center) of the compression stroke.
- Align the pre-drilled indent hole in the distributor driven gear with the white painted alignment line on the lower portion of the shaft housing. Once the distributor is fully seated, the rotor segment should be aligned with the pointer cast into the distributor base.
- The pointer has a (8) cast into it, indicating the distributor is for an eight cylinder engine.make sure the rotor is pointing at the 8 on the distributor.after its installed use a code reader with engine data and check spark advance must be set as close to 0 as possible.but really needs to be at 0 degress.if you do not set timing you will get a ses light and distributor codes.