Spark plug wire mess HELP!

[chopttop]

Started to do a little under the hood work on the '71 C30, cab/chassis w/camper I bought last fall. Was told the engine was rebuilt a few owners back, you know how that goes, well the engine is kinda clean and it has a HEI dist. Well when I went to change wires, cap, rotor I thought I had things marked pretty well, haven't tried to start it, want to change plugs and put a different carb on it first, but to double check myself I pulled up info on 350 firing order 18436572 , standing in front ,looking from front to back it should be 1357 on left and 2468 on right, also said my #1 cylinder cap on rotor should be (2) poles counter clockwise from connecting port. Well that isn't how it is, I don't know if I screwed it up, more than likely, or it was kind of screwed up before I got it, I think I screwed it up. If I follow what I read and wrote in the post I should be able to put #1 in that 2nd post from the connection port and go clockwise? firing order is clockwise?, and then put in #8,#4... I know that the boots are at least on the plugs as I pulled them off, my mess up is w/the boots/dist. Thanks for any help. Choptop