Distributor turns clockwise. From cylinder #1 (which is whatever tower that the rotor points at while TDC on #1 compression stroke), the firing order, clockwise, is 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.
If it is easy enough to do, I take off the passenger side rocker cover and then check to see that the #6 cylinder pushrods are tight and cannot be spun by hand on at least one valve, possibly both. This indicates that cylinder is on its exhaust/intake stroke (TDC), which would put #1 on its compression TDC.
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