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Originally Posted by Graham
If I understood correctly, he was starting at 1 oclock when inserting distributor, but of course it rotates on the way down as the gears engage. It has to end up at 1 o'clock!
There should have been no need to change the plate on the bottom of the distributor. With it centered in the slots, the clamp bolt should have ended up almost at the end of it's slot when the timing is set right. In other words, distributor rotated almost completely CCW.
Good that car now runs though 
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Not exactly.
When the dist and rotor settled in at 1 o'clock... The car won't start. Even if I rotated to the max CCW. IT would barely.
So I inserted dist one notch to the right ( the lip is a little off to the left of the rotor center but not
Much) ... And settled in it would be like at 2 o'clock. The dist is rotated to the max CW... It started right away. .... So I slip the base which allows me to rotate the dist further CW and allowed me more room for timing.