Six years later and this is still the best and quickest install video year. No effin around. Cheers man….

why can't the best video on a subject be the top result? I had to watch so many other BS vids before this one. this is gold

7 years later and this is by far the best! Gold!!!

Good stuff, after rebuilding half of this 305 and not getting spark I really wasn't looking forward to the hassle but you my friend are doing god's work 😂

This video was the best one to help you get your distributor stabbed in and motor running great!!! I spent hours finding the compression stroke, marking the harmonic balancer, finding 11 and 5 on the oil pump. My truck started the first time and never ran better!!!

Holy crap, easiest and simple correct way to install a new dizzy. Lots of people get lost on oil pump part and 11 and 5 and number two bolt on intake to line the rotor is excellent point! Thank you p, you rock!

Just finished up installing mine...you played a role in it...great short to the point video...I bought a new early Gen 1 engine and installing it into my 71 G30 van...thanks for your help..NOW I will be fitting it back into the van!!!

It had been decades since I last installed a SBC distributor. I did a search for a quick refresher as I was setting up a new motor for its first start today. Your video was one of the first hits and is perfectly simple and clear. Thanks!

Simple and straight to the point! No BS. Thank you!

Definitely the best video I’ve ever seen on the subject of installing a distributor in an chevy . I wish I’d seen this 40 yrs ago

Total success on my 1970 C10: started first time! I've never installed a distributor before and also my first time working on any Chevy product. Bravo!

Thanks for the tip I have been working on small block chevys for 65 years and always had to fool around with the distributor to get it in this works like a charm so easy

I ground the gears off of an old distributor shaft and hook it to a drill and use it to prime the motor with oil. I also use it to line up the oil pump shaft. Thanks for the great video.

Thank you so much, was too easy, finally got my 68 c20 running like new.

I looked at all the other "showy" versions. Too many tools or vague instructions. This one is PERFECT. Very understandable and EASY instructions. Gave me the confidence to swap distributors in my '72 GMC pickup. THANK YOU!

Man your a genius. I changed the intake manifold on my classic car and could not get the distributor to drop in at my marks. Your excellent video did the trick. Dropped it in and pointing on the number one cylinder. Thanks for the help.

I never comment on videos but you are awesome my man! I have dropped that distributor in 10 times and each time missed it. Your tips hooked me up first time and I appreciate it big time. As you know this can be the most frustrating thing...especially when it’s on a 67 Camaro where the wires and cap have to come off to get the distributor out. Sincerely...thank you.

This video is spot on! I watched this yesterday and it worked like a charm on my sb 350. This was my firs time ever doing this and it worked the first time. Thank you for posting this.

Best tutorial video on KZfaq. All my Chevy Small Blocks have started the first time with this method. I can pull a distributor, and install one in minutes.

Thank You very much for your video! I watched it this morning and then installed My Distributor in My 1994 Suburban and it started right up!!

I have no joke been looking for this video for a while now. This. Exact. Video. NO ONE ELSE SHOWS THIS! Thank you.

Never commented on KZfaq before but you deserve it and a subscribe. Easy straight , to point , and filled with results 💯

Great to the point video. Just getting back into old school with a '73 sbc Nova and your videos are excellent!

Best how to I've ever seen on this -thank you! Followed this on my new crate engine - perfect!

Thank you so much for this video, my father and I were doing everything we could to find the timing. We’ve been doing it wrong the entire time. Decided to do this while he was at work. First engine build at 18 and it fired up instantly. Adjusted to advancement. Thing runs amazing

Normally, these how to videos for old small blocks are filmed so incredibly poorly, and the synopsis is “just do it right it’ll be fine”- this was super informative, and I can actually see what you were doing. Many thanks bossman

I used your method and the motor started right up and the timing was even close. Thanks for the video.

My Man!!! I struggled with the oil pump part for 2 hours. The engine is in the truck, and it's a K10 4X4. I'm doing this all alone, on top of it all. Finding TDC was a mother, but I finally figured out that if I just stick a rubber cap into the spark plug hole then use a breaker bar to turn the engine, the compression stroke will pop the rubber cap out of the hole. Then I just followed the rest of your video, FIRST CRANK, she started right up. Just a few degrees of time to adjust, and then she ran like a kitten. THANKS!

Thanks for getting straight to the point. No long intro are BS I don’t care about. Made since that’s all I was looking for. Thank you

This is just what these hands needed. I had to line up an HEI type but it was easy,thanks to this video!

Very good job explaining Taking your time and making it simple Very informative Thanks so much 🙌🏼

Thank YOU Sir Scott ! This is the BESTESS tutorial on the subject that I have seen ! Kudoes !

Dude...that was an awesome example of installing the distributer; I am about ready to install mine and after watching, I do not feel as intimidated. Thanks, and add more engine videos!!!

Wow, That makes it simple. Thanks , I will do it that way forever. I have a 66 corvette and I worry about leaning on the fenders to keep turning the oil pump rod.

Awesome and VERY helpful! I'm about to replace the points distributor in my '70 Corvette with an HEI like this one. My Corvette has a tach-drive distributor and just got to figure out now how to connect the power wires to the HEI. Have read many different opinions on how to do that part...some say I must add a relay, others say I don't so still confused about the power wiring. Thanks so much for this helpful video!! Top notch and I will follow your instructions on the installation.

damn dude, i been stabbing in distos for 30 years and i never knew the 11/5 trick. damn it , i wish i knew this years ago. you da man

By far the best view and direct instructions. Excellent video!

OMG sir!! you drop the dist in very quick!! i swear i spent over 2 hours trying to reinstall the same old dist after replacing the pick up coil!! i will try what you did later tonight i hope its work for me. thanks for the video.

Thanks my uncle was getting tired of coming out to fix my 180 degree out mistakes...Got tired of getting yelled at...got away with it as a 16 year old but not at 45 ha ha

I used a timing light one time to try to set the timing before I fired it. Worked pretty good.

Very helpful. clearest instructions I have seen thus far on youtube. I nailed my reinstall first time with your method. Thanks

Cant wait to try this method out next weekend! Thank you ! Best video that I have found on KZfaq!

Just did this tonight and it absolutely works. Thanks!

Damned if you didn't just get right to the info at hand.....Good man. You now have another sub 2 deal with.

Yup, works like a charm. Usually spend a bunch of time stabbing the distributor several times. This method worked on the first try.

Great video. Thank you for the details exactly what I was looking for to install new distributor

Perfect. Thanks!! Best to the point distributor install on KZfaq

OMG this is the best. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills. Blessings and more blessings to you and your family

Just did this and it went in first try no issues thank you!

Best video ever! Followed instructions. Motor started with one crank. Thank You!

spot-on... after watching your video I just stabbed an HEI into my 283 in my 66 Chevelle 300 Deluxe and not only did she fire right up but she was only three degrees out. This is the absolute best how to video I've seen on this subject. Thanks for making this so easy. I will be hitting the subscription box 👍

Great job Scott, that will be very helpfully for Stoney

WOW I have been messing with mine for a few weeks, followed you guide, and click slipped right in! Thanks!

Thanks for this video! This helped a lot!

I've stabbed many a SB dizzy Scott but never been so mathematical but we both have the same result...A great tip for young players mate.

Brilliant Scott, very clear and concise, good stuff Sir

Was intimidated till I watched your video worked like a charm thanks great video

A really good job with a very clear video and greatly appreciated. You did a great job as a professional.

You had the perfect camera setup and the K.I.S.S. explanation is going to get my plow truck running

Awesome tutorial. Blessings and more blessings to you and your family

THANK YOU ! Never heard of the 2nd bolt hole trick . Awesome .

Thank you Scott, I will use this process from now on!!

great video. gonna instal my New HEI dist. this week.:) thanks for sharing.

Absolutely gold. Thank you so much from me and my rebuilt 305 in my 85 C10!

Hands down easiest method I’ve ever seen!! Thanks!! Subscribed!

This video is a better view and a better understanding because the way his camera is positioned you can see exactly what goin on 👍

Thanks for the no fluff straight to the issue video 👍

Dam! Great video! Thanks for this! Love the over the top view! PERFECT

Very comprehensive video. Thanks dude.

thank you for the video i was stuck thinking i had a wrong distributor but got it thanks to your video

Thank you so much for sharing. You made my installation a piece of cake! 👍👍

You do a great job making this fool proof. Thank you for the help!

Thank you so much!! Just fired up my 67 Chevy truck for the first time!!

Awesome! Thanks man, quick and to the point I love it! I get so tired of all the bla bla bla from other contributors...keep it up👍👌🦧

Perfect video! Just what I was looking for! Thanks

Thanks bro, you made it very simple to understand! Great video

So many SBC how-to videos on this subject. They are all confusing as hell. This one is perfect!

THANK YOU I looked at so many other vids and couldn’t get it but I got it with yours first try thank you again

Thank you so much for this video. I have been looking for a video that makes this so easy. You are the Man, I appreciate this so much.

If you have a points distributor you need to set the balancer to at least 8* BTDC on the timing tab rather than 0 or else you will hit the intake with the vacuum pod if your initial timing is set at 14*. If you want the timing higher then you won’t be able to set it if you dropped the distributor in at TDC on #1 comp with the balancer at 0 on the timing tab. Restab it at TDC like you would normally but first move the balancer to 10* BTDC and the rotor still pointing to #1 plug wire distributor cap post.

It is exactly the same process for big block and V-6 Chevy. Most people that need a video to do this , will have an infinitely harder time understanding when # 1 is at TDC on compression stroke. And you would need to have ay least 1 valve cover off to be certain of that. Just get your mark on the balancer to 0` on the timing cover or timing tab. You have a 50/50 percent chance of being right. Follow all the other instructions seen here. If it doesn't run/ pops or backfires, take the dist. cap off, un-bolt and lift the dist. up 2 or 3 inches, and turn the rotor to the opposite direction/ 180` drop the dist. right back in, bolt it down (just snug, not tight) put the dist. cap back on and you're good to go.

You get #1 TDC on comp. stroke on 0. Use an oil pump pump primer shaft to line up the distributor to the oil pump shaft. It doesn't matter. Point the rotor at #1 terminal on the cap. Turn the distributor way back opposite normal rotation and then install it. Then adjust for normal setting. Turn the crank ONLY in normal rotation direction. This causes the chain to be tight.

great teaching Scott !!

most of the time for my daily drivers i put dist in an where ever rotor is pointing is nos 1 an time by ear , having said that with cams and compression you need timing marks on the side of the balancer timing light is using so good job lol :) doing it your correct way is easy and should be followed , if you know your motor and are lazy or looking at an unknown motor and checking that atleast the firing order an timing is close so the problem isn't there my way works to but its really wrong , good video

excellent tutorial by far, thanks!!

Thank you thank you thank you! Great video worked like a champ!🏎️💨

Wow, very simple method, Nice work!

awesome video mate. helped me out a lot in a pinch

Thank you. Education and assistance…done the right way.

best video I've seen ! Thank you, Sir !!

okay listen guys we need to make an annual KZfaq all-time award! For best KZfaq video hands down!🤩🏆!

Thank you for your video, it helped my 305 Malibu.

Best video on KZfaq on this subject!!!

Slowly dropped it in making sure the line was across. It worked so well

Good, clear instructions! Thumbs up.

Thanks for this. I removed my distributor and knew to put it on TDC compression stroke before, but when I went to reinstall it wasn't going all the way in. It would go in one tooth off, so I just need to adjust my oil pump drive.

Awesome video. Thank you!

Great video, well explained, thank you for the tip

Many thanks! Waiting for my MSD pro-billet to return from MSD after a rebuild stemming from the gear getting ground to a nub.

Thanks for shared your knowledge!