Great post, Kenny!! I am going to be the local expert on this by the time I get her running again. I definitely had bad fuel and the button had definitely fallen off the bottom of the plunger. Bad part is, I must not have had the timing exactly in the right spot...difficult to see that scored tooth in the HH and I was a bit impatient, so now there is more gear showing than the half moom area, but it’s very evident when I look very closely at the IP gear where a piece has been broken off. I can only pray that the piece isn’t going to haunt me later as I am not sure where it went. Waiting on the oring kit for the HH now. Soaked the HH in solvent a few days and it looks great but looks don’t mean that it will work!
Re-painted the scored tooth, turned the plungerto be off just one tooth to correspond with the IP gear being off one tooth and it drops right in (how in the hell do ya get the engine to rotate to that perfect spot is beyond me!) Ihave all the injector lines off and tried to use my compressor wrench to rotate it a bit but still too much compression evidently. I have heard that loosening all the injector bolts and popping the loose slightly will release compression but wouldn’t having the lines off have to same effect? Maybe not.
Anyway, learning a lot the hard way. Here are a few photos that someone may enjoy. Wish me luck with re-assembly or if anyone has any words of wisdom, they are much appreciated!!