I have been working 10 hr days and have not had a chance to play with the timing yet but will got to it tommorrow.
the sound continues when it is reved, the sound is a funny sound at first I thought it was the water pump blade scraping and tapping the housing. , I put in the upper bearing and purchased the crank,bearing and rod as one piece.
because it is hard to start I am thinking timing , I was very careful but what would happen if I had put the piston in backwards. thank you for your help and let me try the timing so that I can give you some better information to work with.