just need a quick confirmation on my idiocy

My vacuum faces exactly where Kiyoshi's does. Additionally, mine fired up at 180 degrees out. I know because I made that mistake. It would fire up but not continue running. Personally, I saw those pics as; Remove distributor, spin rotor 180 and replace, then start it and run.
I will add that his vacuum isn't quite where mine is but I'm running 14 degrees advanced whereas his distributor looks to be at 0.