We still needed to pull the distributor since we rotated the dist. cam 180 degrees. Jeremy removed the distributor bolt and hold down. I marked the base of the dist. right where it goes into the block with a fine paint marker and then marked the same point on the block. This would allow us to get an in the ball park timing reference point and start the engine easier.
Jeremy pulley the dist. but it took awhile. That bugger just would not come out. Then finally after a lot of moving it back and forth and up and down it started to come out. When you pull it out I have found that if you keep pressure on the rotor in the direction it is coming out you can feel the point where it clears the cam teeth. When you are putting it in then you can drop it in with the rotor at that point and as it goes in it rotates to where it needs to be. Jeremy installed the dist. with the 180 degrees from where it was. It took a fair amount of playing with it to get it to drop all the way in and engage the
oil pump drive shaft. He then lined up the two marks I made and bolted in down, but not tight.