We had the motor man come out and fire the motor. He checked the position of the points and used a channel lock pliers to rotate the shaft of the mag until it was in the right position and then tighten up the bolts from the mag to the motor side.
He pushed the pawl in each time for us to crank it. The pawl on my mag doesn't always catch the little notch each time so I push it down prior to each crank.
I confirmed that I got a spark each time I had the pawl down and got the impulse to spin and throw the spark. The motor guy also timed it so that the spark hits at just past TDC. He told me he has never had a backfire (or a broken arm) in 30 years of working on them. He is big enough to believe!
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