[wlf89]

i got the gunked scraped off of the timing cover and found the upper tab mark, according to the marks i had it timed up perfect.
after i made sure it was on compression stroke i noticed that the piston wasnt at tdc when the marks where lined up, so i turned it over untill it was tdc and put the dist. back in and it runs like new now. the timing marks ended up being at 6 and 3 oclock instead of the 4 and 1 like supposed to be.

could the chain be wore that much to throw the balancer marks off that much, or has it had a timing set installed and they didnt get the chain and sprockets timed right, thats the only 2 options i can think of