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I've been having this great deal of trouble lately, and I'm almost positive it is timing related. When starting from cold, the engine runs just fine. But into my trip, I noticed that my engine was missing. At first, it would just skip a beat every couple of minutes, more frequently on acceleration. One night, it was warmed up and idling outside, and it was sputtering and throwing out a big white cloud behind it. Obviously, my main thought at that point was the head gasket, which I am in the process of replacing. However, as I was removing my timing belt, I noticed something that seemed off to me. I got my camshaft set to it's TDC point, but when I looked down the sights at my crank pulley, the white TDC mark was not in-line. Does this mean that my cam timing is off by a tooth?

That is my best guess at this point, because I've played with my distributor just about every weekend with the timing light to get it timed right (bought a new distributor in November, didn't have any timing marks on it), and it just starts missing again. Any other thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

 
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How please did you find cam tdc. Thanks