Timing problem

There have been given 2 procedures in the past page of posts and you appear to not be following either, or doing so in a halfway fashion that is missing a critical factor:

IF the damper is at TDC, then the engine can be ready to fire EITHER #1 OR #6. You keep putting it at #1 and that has a 50/50 chance of being dead wrong.

Follow one procedure or the other but stop doing it halfway like you have. Do it like it has been described and it WILL be right and you will know for sure if it is timing or if you have to move on to other problems.

Are you saying that if you move the distributor CCW that the timing on your engine actually retards? Is this waht you are actually seeing, or is this what you think will happen? Moving the distributor CCW ADVANCES the timing.....if things are working right. The timing mark on the crank relative to the timing cover marks should also move CCW when you rotate the distributor CCW. That is advanced, not retarded...