318 Magnum first fire...timing?

One of the guys here used to say "The distributor can point to china"

The fact is you can close your eyes and throw the distributor gear in, and throw the distributor in right after it and it will run just fine. Simply find compression/ no1 and pick whatever cap tower which the rotor is pointing to, and it will run just fine.

I tell you this in an attempt to de-mistify all the fal-de-ral about the drive gear the rotor and all of this.

My first car was a 57 265 Chev. I used to do that and had a service station jock tell me "it could not run" after I'd just drove up. "The wires are all in the wrong place." Ran fine............well as fine as a worn out 57 265 2bbl can run...........