Here's what I did.
I pulled the distributor and bought a new one (the pickup coil was bad and I decided to just replace the whole distributor). I screwed up what I was told. I was told to turn the engine till the timing pointer was lined up with the groove in the balancer wheel, and the #1 plug wire in line with the rotor. Then to mark the distributor housing where the rotor was pointing. I did all of this, except for one thing. I thought I had the #1 plug wire, but did not notice they were crossedin the loom, so I had the rotor pointing to the #7 wire instead.
I transferred my pencil mark from the old distributor to the new one and put the distributor in with the rotor pointing to the exact same place. I never turned the engine in between, except after the new distributor was already meshed in the gear, I had to turn the engine by hand to get the oil pump lined up. Then I returned the timing pointer back to the line and the rotor pointed toward the #7 wire again.
I am thinking I should be OK, but not sure?????
Will this work?
Mark