Well, in the cold snap we have here in North Texas, I've been troubleshooting a no start issue that came up this weekend. This evening, I discovered it looks like a broken timing chain. I pulled the distributer and the camshaft is not turning when the engine is cranked. I'll start disassembly this weekend and pull the timing cover to confirm. I'm not sure of root cause yet. It happened right after re-installing the distributer. No sign of damage to the distributer drive gear or the camshaft.
Any guidance/recommendations of what all I need to check while I have it apart? It's only run for maybe an hour since I did the long block assembly. Short block is original (121K miles when I pulled it from the Mustang). Everything outside the short block is new with Ford OEM or Ford Racing parts.