Questions about 318 timing

VERY important if you might have a "stock" "smogger" distributor that has not been recurved, to REALLY wind the engine up to be sure it's "all in." Smoggers can have a very long slow curve.

If you aren't comfortable doing this, get the engine "barely warm" and unhook the fan belt. You won't hurt anything for the 1 minute that it takes to check this.