Well, just to update- the weather finally got nice enough for me to put in the timing belt, and thanks to all the advice and tips here, things went really smoothly, only one minor glitch. After getting the cam and crankshaft timing marks all lined up and set, I made sure the rotor was pointing at the #1 wire.... forgot that it needed to be the ORIGINAL position for #1, and not the position for #1 after it had been timed previously -DUH! anyway, looked at the timing mark on the cover, saw that it was sitting at 2 degrees BTDC, just like the sticker on the valve cover stated, fired it up and it was running poorly, but running. So started slowly turning the distributor ccw, and got it to where it sounded good and jumped in for a spin. Lo and behold, I had no power on acceleration at all! So I turned it as far as I could ccw and still the same. Finally the light bulb went off and I remembered that I needed to set the rotor at the ORIGINAL position for #1 which was basically 7o'clock (when looking at the distributor from the left fender well), and I had set it to the TIMED position for #1, which was 4 o'clock. So I just loosened the belts, turned the crank back around to the timing mark (I had knocked out the little port at the top of the timing belt cover when I had it off before and had cut the fan shield in half so I could just remove the top half to see), reset the distributor to the original #1 position, and voila! It was then just a matter of turning the dist. to get it to purr like a kitten! Still don't have a timing light so I've done it by ear, but it runs better than ever now! The sticker on the valve cover says 20 degrees BTDC and my son in law is coming in this weekend for Easter, so I'm having him bring his timing light to see how far off I am, but the way the Dragon Wagon is running now, I doubt I'll change a thing! Thanks again everyone for the tips and advice! Happy Easter to all!