New ignition trouble, MAYBE

I talked to him about the smoking ballast resistor. (didn't know it was normal for them to smoke the first time you put power to them).

I think I found the problem, and it's not a problem with the distributor (mostly).

It was brought up that maybe the engagement tooth was too long, keeping the distributor from fully seating on the block.

When I went to check this out, I about pulled the oil shaft clean out of the engine. The slot on the new shaft is WAY bigger than the old one, apparently it got wedged in the pump shaft and wasn't able to fully seat. The length is OK. A little bit of dremmel work should do the trick. Glad I paid a bit more attention to the rotor location before I pulled the distributor :)

Now the only REAL problem is the voltage regulator. I'll double check it once I get the car running again.