[Army 352P CWO]

Ok, so I went back out to the garage after lunch and finally figured out what was causing the rough idle. Time for a little humility on my part.

I again disassembled everything down to, and including, removing the fuel distributor and was double checking everything and every connection I could have possibly disturbed in my initial work. Well, wouldn't you know it, I found that there really had been an old rubber fuel distributor o-ring - squashed flat as a piece of paper and stuck to the bottom of the fuel distributor. In my initial post I had commented on how there hadn't been one when, in fact, I had put the new one right over it without seeing it even though I had been looking for it on my initial disassembly.

I scraped it off and continued my search for anything else that looked out of place. I didn't find anything else, but when it was all put back together the engine started and idled just like it used to.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on the initial starting problem. Everyone on this forum has been great!

At this point it looks like the male starter relay 'prongs' just weren't making good contact with the female port connections, but I'll have to drive it a little while yet just to make sure that was it. Fingers are crossed, and thanks again to everyone for there time! It's like T77911S said, "Start with the easy stuff."