Just a little update on this. The other motor that was in there was built for failure, it had a bad knock that I couldn't figure out from the get go. It fired right up and I broke it in, It had about 10 hrs. of runtime total on it before I said screw it trying to figure out the knock and get another motor. I bought a short block to swap out the bad one and used the cam, lifters, timing chain and all other needed parts from the first motor. The cam is degreed in and basically put back together the way the bad motor was. The only issue is that the dist gear is either pointing to the 2-8 O'clock or 4-10, not 9-3 like the FSM says it should be and it leaves me with a major head scratcher. I'm not real wooried about cranking this motor as the cam is already broken in. I am leaning on looking deeper into the dist and figuring out which would be the better of the 2 positions to get the rotor pointing the closest to #1 tower and go from there. I hope this makes sense? Discuss, thanks.