stumped!

diymirage said
top dead center of what?
compression stroke or exhaust stroke ?

i think it was compression. pulled the spark plug from the number 1 cylinder and put my finger up to it til air came out.

RedFish said
The rotor doesn't point at #1 cylinders physical location. The rotor points at the #1 plug wire location on the cap.

right. the first time i tried i did it to the physical location lol. but i figured that out

318willrun said
Well, you can pull the dist. and point the rotor 180 degrees opposite direction and see if you get something firing. Usually if your timing is way off, you get some backfire, or coughing through the carb. You didn't say anything about the fuel. It's getting gas, I assume??? I've never personally ran one of those 42.00 dollar China HEI dizzy's.

hmm i may need to put it back the way i had it then. on a couple tries, it would cough a little bit. yeah its getting fuel.

if any of you guys use this dizzy, which direction do you guys have the vacuum advance facing? just so i have a landmark.