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Originally Posted by tsubaki

I actually argued with my father that it was not possible to be the problem. His response was "you done replaced everything else, it's going to be a lot easier changing it instead of replacing the head gasket or timing chain".
The live data stream from the code reader showed the timing jumping all over the place after it got warmed up, I was convinced the timing chain was stretched slightly.
Glad I was wrong and did like Daddy said.

The timing chain would have no effect on the timing. The timing is based off of the crank sensor, and only uses the sensor in the distributor as a sync signal to tell it when it is at TDC on #1 for fuel injection.