Thanks for all the help guys. I talked myself into burning the coating off to make the guide fit.
I am going to pull the valve cover in a couple hundred miles and see what kinda wear ive got on that guide. I just got it all buttoned up about an hour ago and it fired up on the third revolution and sounded great. No leaks so far either.
Now i hafta do a little research to figure out why my timing mark on the balancer wont correspond to the indicator on the oil pump as it should. Way to advanced according to my timing light. The distributor bottoms out on the hold down bolt at about 12 degrees before tdc.
Thanks again
