I appreciate the reply.
So my 4.3 is a little different than the automotive 4.3’s – it isn’t really possible to get the distributor a “tooth off”. If it’s stabbed a tooth off, you can just rotate it indefinitely all the way through 360 degrees – it’s not like the 4.3’s in like the little jimmys or whatever where you only have enough throw for a few degrees. Where the dizzy is actually stabbed doesn’t really matter, as long as your spark plug wires and distributor wiring have enough movement and the rotor lines up with the cap. I can definitely say it does – I had to stab the dizzy and find TDC about 15 times because of my incompetence, and I am very confident that at least the distributor is stabbed correctly.
I did have a bit of a nightmare at first, as the automotive caps are crossfire between 1 and 6, so automotive manuals have you set TDC on the engine, and point the rotor at #6 instead of #1. If you look at the Mercruiser manual it states TDC and #1, and it took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize.
