Then after I had the end play that I wanted I put the water pump on and all of my end play disappeared. So apparently the plate that I had originally installed on the back of my water pump to keep my timing cover from flexing outward was too thick and therefore putting additional pressure on my cam button thus causing the block damage that I found
So I machined.030 off of the plate and now I should be good to go
So I machined.030 off of the plate and now I should be good to go