Agree, but it does give you a fighting chance. If you're lucky engine won't have to be rotated, which unless there's a special wrench I don't know about requires removing muffler. Even though I marked mine still got it one tooth off... Unfortunately you don't discover such things until intake and upper air assembly already back on engine! A 289 starts looking good right about then... Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote: > You really can't rely on painted marks and should time up the engine > properly after reassembly. You can't remove the distributor without > taking the intake manifold off > > Martin > > David Teitelbaum wrote: > > >At this point just make notes on the position of the rotor and > >distributer and pull it out of the motor! > >David Teitelbaum > >vin 10757 > > > > > >