Timing/distributor question

Pumpkinduster said

Used a stop and balancer is correct for timing mark, rotor was still off so I pulled the oil shaft and rotated it until I am pointing to the number 1 spark plug.
Should be good now I have to figure out how to get a 12v during crank and run with no drop. LOL

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Simple.......bypass the ballast. This has been posted a guzullian times LOL. The key power "in run" comes to one end of the ballast, and if you have a 4 pin, that is the end where the two terminals are jumpered together. That power goes DEAD in cranking

The bypass circuit connects to the other end of the ballast, the terminal which leads to the coil+. that bypass circuit is usually brown, IGN2, and is hot in "start" just like the start wire, EXCEPT that it comes from a dedicated separate contact in the IGN switch. The IGN1 "run" and IGN2 "bypass" must be jumpered together and then feed the new system