Distributor on properly?

[Mjfreuland]

Just bought this 1974 c10 stepside short bed. It's on a rebuilt 350. Does it look like the distributor is in the wrong position? It runs fine and smooth, just making sure I'm not missing out on any power.

[Rapid Roy]

Welcome. It doesn't  appear correct to me, but, don't hold me to that. It could possibly be incorrect, not for sure.

[Irish_Alley]

It's hard to say just by looking at the cap. But it looks as if someone advanced it as far as they could, I would get a timing light on it. I'll post a link on timing in a minute but it can be found in the tech section of the site

[Irish_Alley]

http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=32085.0

[Mjfreuland]

Thanks, I'm not much of a mechanic. Thankfully my dad is. It runs good, he just noticed it looked weird and thought maybe it could give us some power.

[Irish_Alley]

gennerally the more advance you can make it the more power you can make. but then you can advance it too much and it will hurt performance.

[bd]

You need to check the timing with a proper timing light.  The distributor may have been installed one tooth off.

[Stewart G Griffin]

Off topic, but area that Ford DID get it right was to put the distributor up front.

And Buick.

[MrFiveOh]

Couple thing, first find where #1 wire is. You could easily move a wire one counter clockwise and rotate the distributor clockwise back to is current position if you want it to look a certain way.

[Rattler12]

Doesn't  make any difference where the #1 wire is as long as it's followed by 8,4,3,6,5,7 and 2 and as long as the #1 wire position on the dist.  is timed to the #1 piston being at TDC...…. may look weird the way it is but the motor doesn't know it.