New distrubutor; "Lost" the timing mark on balancer

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Originally Posted by A1971Blazer

It's easy to clock it around......just pull the cap off, remove the hold down, and pull the distributor out.....move it one or two teeth and set it back down...now comes the tricky part and unless you have a remote starter switch hooked up, you'll need someone to bump the starter to engage the oil pump drive and the dist will drop back down......then you'll have to re-time it all over..
I'm like you....I like to have it "clocked" properly just for looks.....after you do it a couple times....you'll have it mastered....!

If it's 180º out...it ain't gonna start.....also like Dave said....you should be hooked to "ported" vacuum.......rather than manifold vacuum....that may be why you couldn't see the TDC mark at first......good work...!

on edit:.....another way to "clock" it......just move the distributor and then move the wires to correspond....to the correct position...

Originally Posted by swamp rat

If you pull the cap the rotor should be pointing to Cyl #1, if your clocking is off i would think you have the distributor gear one tooth off from where it was before one way or the other.

If it buggs you enough to want to fix:

Get the engine back to Compression on Cyl #1, Get a sharpie and put a mark on the distributor body where the center of the cap #1 lead is for reference, remove the distributor cap, remove the hold down clamp, lift it straight up and watch the rotor turn, once free of the cam gear rotate the rotor enough to move it one tooth then reinstall so its pointing at #1, align that sharpie mark just before the rotor center to guesstimate 10 degrees, reinstall the cap then retime.

Thanks, guys! Maybe next week...

I gotta make sure I can move the divorced sister-in-law outta my house later this week!lol.