it runs but not long, update, read last post

so what you’re saying is that i cant pull that gear out and turn it a little bit? and the distributer isnt turned by a gear, there is something that looks like a flathead screwdriver on the bottom of the distributer, and that goes into a slot of the gear in the eingine. thats kidna hard to visualize unless you’ve seen it, and id scan in a page out of the shop manual to show it, but im at work lol.