I'm strongly thinking about going back in to recheck everything. I rotated the engine a couple of times (with a ratchet on the crank bolt) and it was stil the same. Since this is a '75 with the metal backed rubber tensioner rails, I didn't do anything to the tensioner.

I'm wondering if a previous owner did something that got the engine a tooth off somewhere. If the crank gear has 24 teeth, that would make it 15 degrees off if it jumped one tooth.

I wonder if it would be possible to adjust everything without having to pull the timing / dirstibutor drive gear off. Set the crank to TDC, move the cams one tooth in the correct direction and reset the distributor? As it is, the distributor is close to the end of it's adjustment slot to get it to fire at TDC.

What I need to know before I think about this any further is the number of teeth on the crankshaft gear and the cam gears. Does anyone have an engine apart that they could look at?? This is one of the cast iron block 450's with D-Jet injection.

I just hope that when I look back into it, everything is all right now. But my life doesn't work that way.

Thanks,
Scott

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