Help! I've lost it. Pinto with Aldon dizzy. Finally found time to fix the oil leak from the aux iliary shaft that involved taking the cam belt off. Crank and cam ok because the engine was not turned but dizzy shaft has moved, so it won't start. I can't for the life of me figure how to set the static timing near enough to get it going again. I tried a test lamp from the dizzy return to coil and earth and can't get it to light at any point.
What am i missing (apart from marbles!)

Does the distributor have a contact breaker ? If not you may not get anything sensible from the sensor that takes its place and triggers the EDIS ignition amplifier.

You might get close enough by setting the engine to TDC on cylinder 1, with both valves closed, and positioning the distributor so that the arm is pointing at No 1 ignition lead.

Distributors usualy have a little groove cut in the rim. Set engine to TDC on number 1 cylinder, remove dizzy, rotate till the groove is at about 4 o'clock with you sitting on the left front wheel facing the engine, line up the rotor arm at about six o'clock and re-insert the dizzy. The rotor arm rotates as you feed the dizzy into the engine and ends up at 4 o'clock pointing at the groove. Might need to do this a couple of times with slightly different rotor arm positions to get it all to line up. Engine should now start and you can retime the ignition.
Forgot to say number one lead lines up with this groove when you put the dizzy cap on. All o'clocks are with your head in the position it will be in if you are leaning over the car from the nearside just behind the front left wheel and facing the side of the engine, fitting the dizzy in a fairly normal manner.

[Edited on 4/7/11 by Dusty]

is the dizzy turning?
there is a splined shaft that drives it from the oil pimp,that come come out when the dizzy is lifted