[eightsandaces]

Blue S, I still need to know this, if I can verify all cylinders below deck and turn the cams perfect to their marks, how do I know the 180 on the crank afterwords doesn't hit something?

I have no reason to believe the timing is off given the precautions of movement already taken. Unless you can tell me the movement of the crank after positioning the upper cams is safe I am going to go with my initial thesis, that the engine is in time or damn close enough that only the smallest of accommodations need to be made. Hopefully it will turn easily and slowly, that's my goal. I'm very concerned and it sucks that my dad who has done this way more than a thousand times can't remember how...