Ok... so this may take a little longer han what I hoped. I've pulled the dizzy and moved it around re-installed it. It either doesn't run or doesn't idle very well at all.

Should I be getting the engine to TDC before I put it back in?

Pull it out, spin it and try it........

yea it sounds like all you'll need to do is pull it out and turn it a tooth or two. just give it a try

After my engine swap (a14 replacing a12 in the ute) I couldn't get the bugger to kick over.

Fuel : Check
Spark : Check
Compression : Check

Then I guess for the hell of it, I decided to take out the dizzy (which did suffer and pretty big knock during the swap) and swap it with my A12 dizzy.

It slid in and poof it fired up straight away but when I went to check the timing it appeared WAY OFF... we're talking about 35+ (maybe more) degrees. It was way off the marks on the timing cover.

Could it be that I haven't slotted the dizzy into the right tooth or something? and it going to just be a case of taking in out, rotating it a little until I get the right spot and then I may be able to fine tune it by rotating the dizzy later???