Checking Timing??

[Nixon1]

Ok so I make the timing mark on the balancer align with the very very edge of the plate, past the hole?? Man, now I've gotta clean up the balancer too..argh. By the way...is the HO 302 an externally balanced motor? I assumed it was internally balanced but judging by the way the harmonic balancer is all chopped up, made me unsure.

Now...Notch..you're saying that I'm SUPPOSED to leak vacuum from my manifold?? That's gotta be the strangest thing I've ever heard..... Forgive me for my lack of knowledge but I only got this car about a week and a half ago...I'm completely at home around Chevy engines but I don't know crap about Ford...two different worlds.... So..where do I find the fuel pressure regulator?

Now, the vacuum line that was plugged and dangling...I'd guess it to be about a 6mm line, and it ran down into a box on the bottom of the car, passenger side...either the charcoal canister or a vacuum reservoir is my guess..pretty sure the line has a valve assembly in it too. It's got a joining piece connecting that line to the dangling line, but APPARENLY the joining piece is a blocker because I started the engine and finger-checked it..no vacuum leaking. Or possibly the valve isn't allowing a vacuum leak until there's some sort of pressure in the disconnected line, something weird like that.