On the exhaust stroke (the wrong one you will not feel air coming out the plug hole, on the compression stroke it will push air out past your finger, you will fell it, But if you did not pull the distributor ( and it don't sound like you did) all you will have to do is bring your trimming mark on your balancer to your trimming marker and start there timing it, do you have a timing light, if not just move your distributor a few degrees at a time till you hear it try and start and set it the best you can. But remember, pull a couple plugs out and see if they are all black and gas fowled. I remember not putting the rotor button on all the way, after putting it on turn the rotor button by hand and make sure it tries and turns the distributor shaft :thumblef: