story: Ford pickup suddenly stopped running, though several months before I had replaced a leaking timing chain cover, new water pump etc. - I noticed the chain was very loose, but I was ignorant and did not replace. Anyway, after getting the pickup home I could not get any fire to the plugs, and thought about the chain. Did the chain jump? Slowly but surely I replaced just about everything - new distributor, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coil, module, and finally the chain and sprokets. When put back together it starts but dies when put in gear and barely idles, but occasionally will run perfectly. When the harmonic bearing mark shows TDC for number 1 piston, the rotor points to number 4 piston on the dist. cap. When I replaced the timing chain and gears I aligned them with marks pointing to each other, though the rotor again was not pointing to number 1 on the cap. Help!!!
thanks for any input Shawn