older Dodge pickup

My son has a slant 6 in a 1984 dodge ram 100. 59000 actual miles. We drove it home after setting in a garage for 3 years . We had a lot of mouse damage work to do and did a lot of tune up work. It has a double magnetic pickup in the distributor instead of points. Body is no rust and only a dent in the tailgate with a great interior ! The person we got it from is a close relative so I know all of the mileage is true.
Problem is after removing the dist. to put in new mag pick up we set out to time it and found 3 different marks on the harmonic balancer. One is a double notch on damper and back pully and the other two are single marks on the damper. Which mark do we use to set timing . Thanks Jim

Don't forget to adjust the valves on that little 225. A lot of people didn't know you had to adjust the valves every once in a while cause it had a solid lifter cam in it. Those little engines were before their time. I had a lot of customer's when I was in the Auto repair business in the 70's that had Valiants, Skamps, and whatever with the slant 6's in them and the body would fall off the chassis before the engine quit. If you took care of those engines keeping the oil clean, adjusting the valves, and tossing a Distributor into them once in a while, (they would eat Distributors on occasions) 150K miles was not out of the question. Even back then! Had a lot of customer's with way over 100K on them engines. Good engine to hotrod to!...

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Edited by chaskaduo - 26 Mar 2019 at 4:13pm

Them old slant 6's were a damn good motor.  My grandmother had a 67 valiant with one in it, and I hadda 79 D-100 p/u, that I went to the u of Md in, how that truck outlasted my foolish youth beats me.  I had put 3 motors in it, by the time I got rid of it, got to be about a 1/2 day job, to swap out.  deleted the emissions stuff, beat the innards outta the cat converter, got ran into, head on, in Annapolis, one day, I pulled the fender well outta the tire, with a big wrench, drove it home, and un-mangled the fender, by a high speed reverse into a telephone pole.  When I finally got another truck, the junkyard took it, later I was told by them, that everything in it was so wore out, that iy was only worth scrap, which was about nuthin, at that time...

Thanks Weiner. I did think about that posibility.

Yes an older former mechanic told us about those and we replaced it and put one in the glove compartment. I still wonder about not having a vacumn on the distributor.

Thanks again fixer. I learn more on this forum every day.
Jim