The curved part of the drive gear that inserts into the dizzy was facing north... Stright up, twords the head. So i did it wrong. I tried setting it at TDC on the compression stroke and putting the pump in with the dizzy at 5 o clock but it didn't seem to work, but that's what i have been reading (And you say so, and i belive you 200 percent seeing as how most of the information i come across in doing this is from you on this forum, haha). I will give it another go tommarow... Gotta work real early in the morning. It would start when the dizzy was around the 5 o clock mark, but would run like total shit and would stall out in seconds. I figure it's just because the dizzy isn't set right though... I may have had it slightly retarded or advaced as well. So the tip of the gear that inserts into the dizzy should pretty much be a backwards "D"? I think i've got it figured out but no harm in asking.
My initial timing is great.... Lines up at TDC on the crank pullly and the cam lines up with it. Now, every once in a while it wont line up right and i have to rotate the engine a bit and then it will line up fine... But that's normal right?
And yes, i am alighning the pump and gear right... I Belive. There is a little notch in the pump and a little hole, preferation looking dot on the gear. That is how i have been lining that up. I read somewere (Can't remeber where) that it's the right way to do it... But not being a vetern with this thing im not positive.
And just for a little more referance, the car did run great before i tore into it... Just that guide was missing and it was tearing into the water jacket. Also, random question that poped into my head. The motor has to be warm, or at least have a bit of pressure in it in order to blurp the bubbles out of the cooling system right? That could be half of why it run's like shit at start up.
