hey all,
thanks to those who responded with my last problem of the distributor not
being fully seated.  i properly seated it today and it started right up with
boston bobs beautiful piece of magic humming like a bird.  so now the next
problem.
   after getting intial start up on the new engine and getting rpm up to
about 1500, i noticed the exhaust pipes coming out of the heads were glowing
red.  i shut it down immediatley.  if you recall the gas in the tank is a
year old.  so i drained the tank and will fill with new gas tomorrow.
hopefully this was the reason for the red glow. according to boston bob, the
gas was so old that it was burning slow rather than quick flashes and
causing the glow.
also here is another observation.  when i seated the distributor while crank
was at tdc notch, the rotor only seated where it faced #3 cylinder.  i
thought the rotor was supposed to face number 1 which is about 4 oclock on
the distributor, when crank was at tdc.  however this is the only way the
rotor would seat.  does this mean that my timing is way advanced or
retarded, and could this also lead to the red hot glow?  the engine sounded
great with no back firing.  there was slight hesitation though, but this
could have been due to the bad gas.  so could someone please walk me through
this whole distributor lining up thing in very simple terms.  i have a
timing light but not quite sure how to use it.  obviously, i am learning as
i go here and with the help of you all i am doing pretty okay.  where is my
rotor supposed to face and how can i get it to face there?
hoping for no mo' red glow
thanks again
jason
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