no idea where the timing is.

Do you have a vacumn gauge? If so you can time it where you get the best manifold vacumn.If not I usually get my wife to hold the brake and rev it up and I advance it till it rattles and then back it off just a little. Tighten it down and drive it and put my foot in it. If it dont rattle its good. Then put a new plug in and run it. Pull the plug and compare it to a plug reading chart,theres several available if you google it.It will tell you if its good, advanced or retarded by the color.