Pull #1 spark plug, and have a friend bump the engine over while you have your finger over the spark plug hole...bump it slow. Once you start feeling compression coming up....stop....put a breaker bar or socket on the front turn the engine clockwise line up the TDC pointer to zero on the damper. The turn it another back 10-15 deg counter clock wise stop. Do this with out the dist in the hole, now drop in the dist and phase it how ever you want it, or put # 1 where ever you want it. Just use a long straight screw driver and turn the intermediate shaft back out of it climbing out of the cam gear turn it how ever you please. Dont turn the engine though. Install the dist without the rotor cap. Notice and mark where the button tip is pointing. Simply install the cap and turn the dist to line up the cap, and button pointer tang. make this number one. wire it up and fire it off.