Installing distributor for replacement?

The alternator shouldn't toast the distributor but starnger thing have happened. Check your underhood fuses though, there is one for the alternator, I thinkis #41 otherwise it may be an module problem not the distributor. Or a ground for the module.

Well check that s they burn up. In our manual it was listed as a fuse. Oh well stranger things have happened.

Were the firing order of the spark plugs lined up correctly?
What was the reason for replacing the distributor?

Retime the distributor. Turn piston # 1 to TDC on firing stroke and note if distributor rotor is pointing to # 1 cylinder. Some remand distributors are installed 180 degrees oposite so the firing order would be out.

If engine had been idle for extended periods, check the compression. They could be low due to the cylinders drying out and does not have any lubrications to seal the piston rings. Remove spark plugs and pump some engine oil into cylinders. Crank the engine for a few seconds and reinstall spark plugs and retest.

Note the position of the spark plug wire for # 1 cylinder on distributor cap and when crankshsft is turned to the correct position, the rotor should be pointing at the place where the #1 spark plug wire should be when distributior cap is installed.

See attached diagram.

Have you got it correct?

You replaced the distributor but when you do that you upset the vehicles timing. It needs to have the timing checked and adjusted. The rotation of the distributor adjusts the engine timing. You need to disable the car computer and hook up a timing light to do this.