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If you remove the plug wires and the cap and then cannot remember how to put it all back together, remember it like this. As the previous post suggested, remove the #1 sparkplug from the engine. It should be the front plug on the drivers side, and turn over the engine manually so that you can feel compression blow back against your finger when you place your finger over the spark plug hole. Now as soon as you have felt the blowback you should be at top dead center on the compression stroke and if you have the distributor cap removed and the rotor still attached to the distributor, then you should be able to look at the rotor and see if the rotor is pointing towards the #1 cylinder on the drivers side. If it is, then you can go ahead and reinstall the spark plug and cap.If it is not then you can loosen the bolt that holds down the distributor and slowly turn the distributor either left or right until you see the rotor pointing directly to the #1 cylinder. Before you lower the cap down onto the distributor, take a peek at the rotor and remember where the rotor is pointing to in relation to the cap wiring location. this will be your #1 wire on the cap. if as you have stated on your posts that the engine turns in a counter clockwise rotation then after you get the #1 wire on the cap, then you simply need to follow the sequence of rotation on the cap in a counter clockwise form. The correct wiring placement will be as follows 1,8,4,3,6,5,7,2. This will be your firing order. The correct alignment on the block will be as follows: drivers side front to rear cylinders 1,3,5,7 and the passenger side cylinder order front to rear as follows 2,4,6,8 if you line up the wires in this order, than you will have the correct firing order. if at that point you are still experiencing issues with your points, then you need to learn how to gap the points which is not a hard thing to do. With the cap and rotor off, you can look down into the distributor and see the point set. the points are attached to the distributorwith a screw, and the points ride on the cam lobes on the distributor which will turn and the points will open and close as the points ride against the lobes. To adjust your points you will need to manually turn over the engine until you have the point set against the pointed edge of the lobe on the distributor then using a brass flat feeler gauge, you need to loosen up the screw that holds down the points to the distributor and place your feeler gauge between the contacts using the correct gap setting. Make sure you have your battery negative cable diconnected so there will be no power passing through the points when you adjust them. Once you place the proper feeler gauge between the contact points with the cam lobe at the open position (on the point of the lobe) you can now tighten the screw that holds the points down and slide the feeler gauge out from between the contacts then assemble the distributor cap and rotor. this should be a big help in getting the car running more smoothly. You can then adjust timing with a timing light.