#1 can really be any place on the cap if you wire it correctly, but most aim the pointer towards #1 cylinder, if you had to crank the engine to get the distributor to fall into the oil pump ? then it wasn't in the same place as when you removed it

Didn’t have to crank the engine to get the distributor in. Just have to rotate the distributor slightly to fall into place.

Well what you've described doesn't make sense to me, I guess all this is above my pay grade and its 5 o'clock time for a :ernaehrung004:

could
i have the rotor off 180° inside the distributor? Wouldnt think it’s even fire though

I edited the photo to make it easier to see, but the white marks where my reference marks originally





https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...b4ad606b2.jpeg

NO, the rotor is keyed just like the cap, maybe you were not on the compression stroke when you were thinking its TDC, if thats the case then you were 180* out

EDIT: your picture as I said before looks to be 1 hole off all the way around the cap when replacing the wires, good thing is its fixed

yea like I had the rotor and key flipped 180° Inside the distributor. But if It flipped would even start or run?

But now looking at other pictures their distributors sit how mine is now in relation to the block. Picture I found
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...8001b3980c.png

And even this illustration has it sitting similar



https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...2e7314fc3d.png

Picture of the distributor in relation to the engine now.
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...cb4df00c5.jpeg