It was shaking, but not severely, before retiming it. Hence, the reason for wanting to retime. Valves were just adjusted last month and none were too bad out of speck.

When I went to time it this time, I never reached the point on the swivel where no fuel was coming out of the drip tube. That leads me to believe that the splined notch may not have been aligned right. But the engine was at 24BTDC with the cam ears pointing up. I'm wondering if somehow my timing chain is badly off. Would this be a symptom of such an issue?

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1983 300CDT -- 177K