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Just thought of something, one way you can tell if you balancer is way off is the following. Take out the number one spark plug and put your finger over the spark plug whole. Barely, bump the motor over until you finger pops off due to compression. Get a flashlight and see how far down the #1 piston is. Play around a few times until you get the piston as close as you can to the top. Now, Look at the balancer and see if it is near TDC or 0 degrees. If not you balancer has slid. This is the way I line up the distributor when I put it back in after pulling it. I put the #1 piston at TDC and make sure the balancer is close to TDC. Then I turn on the key and turn the distributor to get spark while grounding it against the cylinder head. Be careful it hurts like $%#& if you get shocked. I then advance the distibutor a little bit and start the car and set the intial timing. Hope this helps.