Oh crap… cleaned out fuel system… rough starting. Is it the timing?

You must even treat the fresh fuel with a biocide for awhile, even if you thoroughly clean the fuel system. The bugs are quite tenacious, and they even feed off of their own dead bugs.

So how did timing become an issue? What did you take apart? There is/was no need to dissasemble the fuel injection pump.

just sounds like air in there to me. surely you never took fuel pump off.

did you bleed it after.