I need some help/advice from y'all who are smarter than I am. I bought an '81 El Camino with what I was told was a 350. I'm not able to read the #'s on the back of the block or at the head so right now I'm not sure what it is. I was going to set the timing and I discovered that the damper is an 8" and the timing cover is the one that has the timing tab with a short tube welded on at about 12:00 and the tab is actually hidden under the damper. so I can't see the #'s on the tab. One of the two has to be wrong. I'm thinking, can I add a tab held on by the cover bolts and add a timing tape and find TDC and orient the two 0's, or is there another way?
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