Finally found my problem...warning to all.

:oops:

Got the cover off, and low and behold, you were right. How embarrassing.

Snapped a couple of pictures, but haven't gotten them off the camera yet.

In the end, I didn't look at the crank sprocket closely enough. There are 3 keyways cut in it, with 2 of them marked with either -4 or +4. The other key had what I thought was the timing mark over it, when in fact it was a "0". The actual mark is a little tiny tick a couple of teeth away from it. I saw the zero, thought it was the mark and slammed it together. Never had one with the 3 possible keyways, didn't pay enough attention.

Wish I could find some way to blame this on someone or something else. No go, though.

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I had mine installed the same way. Luckily, for some reason, I took the timing cover back off and noticed it before I ever fired it up. If it's like my sprocket was, the mark was so small, I could barely see it.