DE Timing/Distributor help!

[tctomasc]

So I have a 95 240 with a ka24de. I recently had ignition problems, where my car would not completely fire, and it would just drive nastily. So i took off the distributor cap and saw that there was a mess of metal shavings and that the rotor wasnt making contact or even getting close to the cap anymore. so I went out and got a new one. Now somewhere inbetween that I took the distributor out completely to check over the rest of it. No upon reinserting I turned the crank pulley till it was on the second notch from the left. then I lined up the rotor so it would fire cylinder 1. Now I have done this about 7 times, thinking im getting the 180 error, but where it sits now is, it wont even try and fire up. It just cranks and cranks. B4 I had it where it would make a bubbling almost poping noise, like it wanted to fdire up. That was 180* ago, so should I turn it back and should the rotor be directly on cyl 1 or just b4 or after. Any help at all would be appreciated.

[240RB1]

heres what i do when i time a dual cam remove first plug get some toilet paper and wad it up and stick it down the hole hehe. now go in the car and crank it a couple of times and when that wad of TP shoots a million feet in the air that means your on the compression stroke now set the #1 at tdc now take your distributor and insrt it with the rotor pointing at #1 on the cap and place the cap. you know what else needs to be done so there you go its always werked for me hope it works for you as well

[liquid_cool]

heres what i do when i time a dual cam remove first plug get some toilet paper and wad it up and stick it down the hole hehe. now go in the car and crank it a couple of times and when that wad of TP shoots a million feet in the air that means your on the compression stroke now set the #1 at tdc now take your distributor and insrt it with the rotor pointing at #1 on the cap and place the cap. you know what else needs to be done so there you go its always werked for me hope it works for you as well

lol..thats what i do!..i thought that was my trick alone!..lol..jk man..our dads must have hung around in a previous life...thats the same method i was tought when i was 10 too...brings back memories