Help.? anyone?

[bake74]

  What do you mean your starter backs off and spins after a few seconds?  Are you saying you have a starter problem too?

     If you overheat a starter the bendix will not engage fully, sometimes you have to cool it down before it works right.  It is also a good way to burn out your starter too.

[Low82C10]

i just did what you asked, i pointed rotor to #1, got the mark on 0 and turned it CCW and it started moving at about 1/2" so its around the 4 or 5 on the mark

[bd]

That 1/2" of rotation translates to about 8 degrees of timing.  If you wound up on the 4th or 5th mark (each mark is 2 deg), that confirms 8 - 10 degrees of looseness in your timing chain.  If you're certain on the stabbing of the distributor, then the engine may have jumped time.  Even w/o jumping a tooth, a timing chain that loose could have caused all your original symptoms.