Swapped to Electronic Dizzy, Ran for a minute, now it won’t start!

"180 out" means that the distributor is 1/2 turn off. You will still line up the marks and think it is in time. But it will be trying to fire no6 instead of no1. THIS IS EASY to dismiss!!!

Two ways:

1...Most common, remove no1 plug, bump engine until you feel compression. You may have to "go round" a couple of times. As soon as you feel compression, stop, manually wrench engine or bump carefully while looking for marks which should immediately come up

3.. Second way is IF you have the rocker covers off, bring up marks to TDC and look at no1 and no6 valves. One pair will be equally open, the other pair will be closed. the pair that are closed IS FIRING. You can either set dist in to fire on no6 if they are closed, or rotate the engine 1 turn so no1 valves are closed, and set the dist in for no1

DO NOT line them up on TDC but rather WHERE YOU WANT timing, AKA 15 BTC, etc. Now drop in dist with rotor pointing to where you want no1 on the cap.

Line up no1 cap tower with the rotor, and next, rotate the dist body retard (cw on SB) and then SLOWLY rotate it back CCW (advanced on SB) until either A: Spark triggers at the pickup, or B visually center the pickup and the reluctor. THAT SHOULD be close enough to START