Hello -
I posted on the montero sport site as well, but I've always gotten great technical help here so...

I set the crank to TDC got all the old components off and new ones on. Set a "default" tension on the belt and cranked it by hand. About 1/4 rev of the crank and the passenger's cam skipped a tooth, and as I tried to reposition the drivers side skipped one or two.

Maybe I'm over-complicating it but I want to make sure I don't have any interference as I try to get every thing back to square one to start fresh.

I'm hoping that just being off a tooth or two will still give me the clearance I need to rotate back to tdc (after increasing tension), then release the tension and roll the cams back to proper alignment and start over but make sure to give the belt enough tension.

Is this going to work? Is there something else I need to allow for?

I have found some more guidelines on how to get the belt securely in place before test-rotating, so I think I'll be all right once I get to that point (this is my 3rd TB, you'd THINK I would have it figured out by now... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />)