Ok I am lost. Got the part about blowing finger off plug hole, lost me when you said position of rotor at 4 and pointer lines up with 6.
Start over;
1. Finger blows off hole #1 cyl. Now with a wrench turn the crankshaft (ignition off) untill the ball lines with the pointer. (you may have to turn it backwards or forwards to find it but it should not be to far off.)
2. Now look under the cap and mark the place the rotor points to on the outside of the distributor.
3. Put the cap on and install 1 wire in the cap at the same location that you made the mark. (forget what the book said about position of the wire in the cap) This is #1 wire and should be pluged onto #1 plug.
4.Remove the cap have some onespin the engine with the starter and note the direction the rotor turns.
5. Reinstall the cap, plug in #1 wire, remember the direction of rotation. The next place you can put a wire in the cap in the direction of rotation of the rotor is the next cylinder to fire in the firing order. If your firing order is 153642 then #5 wire will be the next wire to hook up. Again in the same rotation #3 will be next, then 6-4-2 in order.

Repost when this is done.

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