i was not going to remove the timing chain or any thing on the front of the engine so i did not place at tdc on tear down... but i had to remove everything because of that plastic chain guide.... haynes does not sell a manual for 300e and so i bought a cd which had very few drawings and they were confusing....and hard to read... most of the info said to take tdc off of the timing mark which lines up with the sensor... well we had already disassembled the whole front of the engine....so after that point marks are few.... there is a couple of marks on the cam and the quesiton is which one... the drawings all seem to indicate a notch but the real tdc appears to be a dot... and on the bottom crank there is a notch that goes to 12 oclock.

so the top was all i was having problems with....

we started it but did not let it run but a second.... i need to put water and air filter on.. and tighten exhaust... so i will report again tomorrow...