Quick valve lash questions...

Of course it seems like everything I've done to this car has been at least 3x as difficult as it should have been.
yeah, i have never had any problems like i'm having with this one... I don't think i have gotten 100x stupider in the last 20 years but it seems like it.. only difference is i have never run a small block before.. right now i have valve noise, a wobbling distributor and a carb to straighten out.. just **** to fix.. the dist bugs me most of all.. second one i have put in that wobbles.. first one had .015 runout in the shaft. Gonna check this one when i get home. Praying it's not the dist drive as that ****** wasn't cheap