Welcome from North Carolina. Sorry about your Dad. If there's a vacuum advance on your distributor, be sure to disconnect it and plug the vacuum line before checking the timing.
It is unplugged and plugged up where is my timing supposed to be at idol and where is it supposed to be at what RP m's Well I guess it doesn't matter about RP m's because my tack omner Won't stay still for me to even see where the RP m's are at