318 LA Rotor position and TDC questions

The terminology "dot to dot" is used quite often. That means cam at 6 crank at 12, which you have done. This puts #6 at TDC compression, not #1.
#6 coincidentally is 1/2 way thru firing order(1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2)
Rotate the crank another revolution(360*), and you have now put the dot on cam at 12 and crank at 12. This is now #1 TDC compression and coincidentally at the beginning of the firing order.
2 crank turns=1 cam turn and 1 distributor turn.
Hope this helps make sense of **** lol.
Good luck!
Ask away!

JeffreyLee said

Good to know, I set up my timing chain at 12:00 crank and 6:00 cam TDC on #1 cylinder. Opinions flying around everywhere and terminology that I am learning as I go. I guess that I should totally re-think what I thought I had figured out and do the finger test on #1 to get the correct starting point for the new distributor. I really thought that the dots needed to be at 6 and 12....this has been fun, but frustrating. ****!

Click to expand...