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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RichV" data-source="post: 1211636" data-attributes="member: 17007">You're overthinking how simple this really is.The reason you'd want to lign up the sprockets before disassembly is so you know where they are and can put them back on marks rather easily. If you install it a tooth off either way, you're ****ed and will be re-doing all of this.Sure you can put 2 lifters in place and turn the cam. But it will be on the power stroke when the cam sprocket mark is at the dot, that's what the dot is there for.Not sure what you mean, frowned upon. When the timing is on marks, the distributor rotor will point at #1. If it's 180* out the rotor will point at #6, the ONLY way to make this correct is to re-install the distributor with the rotor pointing at #1.It's hard to explain without showing you, but if you lign up the cam/crank correct, it will run.</blockquote>