Gotta agree with Gary, crank gear looks good....and most likely superior to the well known ones out there, which have long since been outsourced. Quite a bit of writings on this a few years ago by engine builders.
As far as I know Cloyes maintains a good rep,as well as Lunati. We run a PBM , more than you need for your application.
About that #@#! TDC thing, pretty important thing to have a handle on when you start tearing into these. Yes, can put it back together exactly the way it came apart, as long as it's exactly the way it came apart.
Pick up David Vizard's book on " Rebuilding your SBC" take a read through before you proceed, just a suggestion. Great reference material, jot a few notes in it on your engine. Jot a few notes from John Z's articles in it and some some of the info out of these posts pertaining to 302's fine tuning in it.
They make a distinct, beautiful sound when they are tuned correctly and screaming, but are not forgiving being a performance engine if poorly maintained.
