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Well, I started on my intake gaskets and now I can't get my distributor to fall on my marks. Am I missing something? I didn't disturb the engine at all?
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Did you line up #1 at TDC?

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No I didn't. Didn't think I had to if the truck waz running great except for the leak.
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Would have made the job easier to just line up the rotor with the tiny number on the side of the housing.

Otherwise you have to turn back slightly cause the rotor will rotate as it's dropped in. I used to put a mark on the fire wall and from the rotor to the dist housing. Till I learned that you have to do the cam retard offset adjustment anyway.

Instructions here cam retard

Which will require a scanner that can do real time sensor data not a simple code scanner.

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turn your rotor back a bit and redrop it in. the cam gear/and dist gear are cut on a helix, therefore the entire dist shaft will move/rotate going in the engine.

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I've done that already and I'm still off from my original marks I did on the base of the distributor and rotor to distributor. I rotated the oil pump shaft to try to get it to fall, but it just won't. Frustrating job. Anybody on here from NW part of Houston that can lend me hand?

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Just get it as close as you can and clock the distributor until one of the posts line up to the rotor near your original mark and go from there. Or you could just set it to tdc and do it like that.
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