Got another good story about stabing in a distributer 180* out.........Take the valve cover off, pull the plug in #1 and rotate your engine untill both the valves are closed and 0* on your balancer and your plug at the TOP of the cylinder, you will FOR SURE be TDC. Then stab the distributer in with the rotor pointing at #1......So the story....I had a '59 Fairlane with a 390 out of a 69 torino...Junk Yard jewel. I was living in an apartment with strict no work on cars in parking lot....well I had a exaust leak at the manifold, figuerd I would fix it...after braking 3 bolts off in the head I had no choice but take it down....I get the head off take it to work and drill out the busted exaust bolts, clean up the head and put it all back together.....with a few visits from apartment managment of course....luckily I was.....involved with the Managers niece, she got me off the hook cause there was a MESS under that car....anyway, I get the thing back together and it wont run....Im trying and trying and trying.....back fire through the carb a couple times and that was it. Early next morning, like 7 am on a sunday, I go out and decide to do somemore work...I need this car....I am cranking and cranking and cranking.....about this time a lady was walking her dog RIGHT behind my car when I try it again and BOOOOM.....It blew one of my mufflers right in half. She screams, dog takes off and my car was on fire.......I threw a rag over the carb, it caught on fire cause of course it was covered with gas, lady is screaming at me cause I made her dog run away....I eventualy save my car, find the dog and thank god for some old guy who happened to drive an old Plymouth who told me what I needed to do to get my old ford running......