[PsychoBillyCadillac]

Didn't get a chance to play with the caddy much today but for what it's worth I took a look at the distributor rotor with the cap off while I turned the crank pulley with a wrench. There doesn't seem to be any noticible play between the two, a tiny hesitation, if anything. I suppose it's still possible it jumped a tooth or something if the gears are plastic as you say, but there doesn't appear to be any play in the chain. I also thought it important that I mention that I didn't do a COMPLETE top end re-build. The engine had blown the head gaskets and was taken down to repair that. The heads were shaved 30 thousanths to straighten them but I did not do a valve job. The valves, valve springs, rockers, and pushrods are all original to the car with 115,000 miles on them and it is making a noise just as Al mentioned, a loud ticking, not from under the hood but "echoing down the length of the exhaust." What would be the remedy for a sticking or burnt valve? Pull the heads and do a complete valve job?