Pulled the Mess that was my Timing Chain....

Perhaps I spoke to soon. It definitely runs, but idling is rough and off not warmed up, will die immediately. Playing with the distributor now, but disputed the PCV is stuck open, since when is plugging it off will even out. It acts like it goes down to die, but then picks itself back in idle speed, then tries to stop down again, ect.

UPDATE: As we hooked the hot air intake to the air cleaner that we reattached back to the carb, the idle did rise and stabilize itself a noticeable difference. However, with the timing light we saw that it was only a mostly even idle at around 900-1100 RPMS and with 15-20* BTDC, way too high. As we tried to lower the RPMS to about 850 and move the timing forward, it began to get choppier and choppier, struggling to idle correctly. We managed to get it to hover at a little above 900 at 8* BTDC (without vacuum advance), but it sounds kinda rough. We test drove it after finding no leaks, and man, did she die a lot when you let off the gas. Struggled up the onramp (not a very steep climb), but easily got up to speed to 65 to cruise. Much, much more responsive and lively, no hesitation in power. You had to put it in neutral and park even slowing down towards a stop and hitting the gas to keep it from dying. After getting it back to the shop, we found that the PCV valve wasn't doing its job. Quick stop at the parts store to get a new PCV valve and that BWD19 resistor. Two minutes to put them both on, and turn on the car. Higher idle, a much healthier idle, and didn't feel the need to bog down. Going through the gears; neutral was good, reverse, idle drop, but sounded good, drive, sounded good (it was on each gear for about 5 seconds), then back into drive. Sounded okay, dropped in idle like it should, but after 10 seconds, just died, as if someone turned the key off.

My teacher is concerned that we were a tooth off on the timing chain, but with these minor improvement with all of this, could it really be the timing chain? We made leaps and bounds today, but it's time to get this problem solved now while we have momentum.