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The Ah-Ha moment has occurred. I see the error of my ways. Heartless is correct in interpreting I installed the belt then went immediately to the valve adjustment. . It is not one procedure. They are separate procedures. My first error occurred with using the wrong crank timing mark (which placed cyl 1. at TDC) and things snowballed from there. For the timing belt I was using the hash marks on the cam sprockets, but my error was the mark on the crank gear. As el_freddo pointed out, the correct crank mark is the tab on the back of the crank gear. When using the correct crank mark, cyl. #1 is NOT at TDC. I have used that mark before, but completely forgot about it this time. If I would have used the correct crank timing mark the first time I would have never attempted the valve adjustment because Cyl. 1 is not at TDC for the belt installation. The belt is now installed correctly. Now, I can roll the crank around until the cam sprocket arrows point up and proceed with the valve adjustment. Thank you for struggling through this with me, it really had me confused. Chopper

SJR is a lot better in my opinion, plus you're really supporting a guy that is a big part of this community and has helped make a lot of these mods possible. I have a 1983 that I put the 4 inch SJR lift on, I had to install longer brake lines up front, and extend the pitch stop and steering shaft. Did not have to do anything with the Speedo cable but no one else besides me it seems had to extend brake lines so it seems everyone's is a little different. It does not come with instructions though but if you spend a little time its fairly easy to find out what goes where. Good luck with the lift I love mine! Next up is the EJ swap.

Thank you so much! I'll try to get this done soon, this is very helpful!