So last night when I decided to give up on phasing the rotor, I pulled the distributor back out and brought it inside and was fiddling around with it and I noticed something odd that I'm wondering if it could be causing the rotor phasing issue.
When I hold the shaft at the bottom of the distributor (the part that goes down into the engine) and then I hold the shaft at the top (where the rotor goes on) the top part of the shaft will rotate clockwise a good amount while the bottom half of the shaft isn't moving at all???
It's like the top part of the shaft is spring loaded and it will twist back and forth while the bottom half of the shaft is staying solid.
Is that normal?