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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BLOWN 95GT" data-source="post: 937397" data-attributes="member: 12327"><p>You should not have to pull the timing cover to see if the timing is 180 out. It is very easy to set a timing chain, bring #1 piston up to tdc make sure and install the chain with the two marks lined up. Did you check the distributor to make sure it wasn't 180 out? Just asking because you never mentioned it, and that would have been the first thing I would do. Lots of first time builders also make this mistake. Turn the motor over by hand to bring number 1 piston up to TDC, make sure the timing marker is pointing at the 0 on the harmonic balancer, install the distributor so the rotor button is pointing at the plug wire on the distributor cap going to the number 1 cylinder and make sure you have the rest of the plug wires installed on the cap in the correct firing order. But if you pulled the rockers and pushrods on the cylinders you tested and still have no compression you probably did bend  some valves.</p></blockquote><p></p>