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Sounds like you had a fun filled weekend. Simplest method (I think) to get your timing back is to remove all plugs, and put finger over hole for plug one. Ask an assistant to turn the engine over on the starting handle until you feel compression under your ginger. Now insert a length of stiff wire into the bore, and turn the engine until you reach top dead centre. Remove starting handle. Do not rotate engine from now on. Turn distributor body until you get the points just opening and that position should be for plug lead number one. If you can't get it to line up, lift the distributor out of its drive and index the rotor round in the appropriate direction by one gear tooth (or more) until you get the timing back. The drive to it is a skew gear, so nothing will line up the way you think it will initially!! The gear on the flywheel is called the ring gear (in the UK, anyway) - I don't know if you can get them - to remove it, you need to drill a hole through it (same direction as the crankshaft axis) and then split it with a cold steel chisel. The new one needs to be put on hot, so it shrinks to grip the flywheel. Not a job to do lightly. If the starter only jams sometimes, remove the Bendix gear assembly from the starter shaft and degrease it thoroughly. Strangely, Bendix gears work best with no lubrication at all. Good luck.
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