318 Timing Chain Question.

Dartswinger70 said
Geez some of you need to take a Zanax....the feller said he cant see it from below because its a 46 custom something so, id figure do to dot would be easier to see even with a mirror. The distributor isn't out of the car so non issue there. he could either line it back up 12 and 12 the way it came apart OR dot to dot the distributor would turn with the cam on lineup p and the thing would start wouldn't even need to check timing etc. Only thing OP has to worry about is being a tooth off either way from not being able to see it straight on if that's the case... hey sorry I replied first wont happen again. To anyone else I say buy a book...it would be quicker to go to the bench look at it instead of asking on a forum :)

WTF? How did we know what he was doing from his original post? If he was building an engine, he would need to stab the distributor, right. Right? RIGHT? That's why I told him the correct by the book way to do it. He also did not include WHAT it was in in the original post. DID HE? All I wanted to do was to make DAMN SURE he knew what was going on. We've already come to the conclusion all he is doing is a timing chain replacement and he never messed with the distributor, so dot to dot is fine. Or DID YOU MISS THAT in your quest at smartassary?