Well, it's my turn to ask for suggestions..

I lined up the dot on the key way, instead of the dot on the tooth. This put my piston almost an inch away from TDC, and I was 3 teeth off on my dot-to-dot alignment. I've never done that before, but hey, I own this one. I can't believe it ran, and didn't back fire or anything, just a SLUG.... lol. I will get this back as time permits, and I'm sure it will run as I expected. I will post the final results when she is back together.
Oh, here come the folks to chew me out for not using the degreeing wheel.....