should I have felt 4 points of resistance when manually turning the crankshaft to check the tension of the timing belt? my buddy said that was the valves going up, down, up, down through one 360 degree turn of the crankshaft.

but I just read something in the haynes manual that said if you feel resistance when turning the crankshaft by hand, you may be hitting a valve?

but i know the crankshaft and cam shaft were lined up correctly! the up marks were very, very distinctive!

also, could some air have gotten into the system when i disconnected the vacuum valve on the valve cover and/or when I lifted the valve cover to release the timing belt cover?

man, something just isn't right. and I don't know if it's that 10mm service bolt causing the dragging.

my buddy also said that we just need to adjust the timing on the distributor cap or something. whatever he was talking about, it was the timing of a component away from the the crank/cam shafts.