Stalls in Gear, Automatic- Restarts Good- Can Slam it into Gear! EEEK

67Dart273 said
I almost mentioned this. If you look through the factory shop manual, there's a procedure in there for checking the chain / valve timing, and valve timing for factory cams is listed in the back of the engine section, "specifications"

in order to check the timing marks if this is what u r saying I believe I have to take the cover and water pump off to check. I was thinking of doing this because when I rock the crank pulley back and forth there isn't any movement at the distributor for a bit. I think there might be some slop in the chain. again other than some spitting minor stumble of the engine I would never know theres a timing issue