Well, I got as far as I could tonight. Crank pulley and balancer are off. Pulled what I think was number one spark plug (left front facing engine). Didn't have the right tool to get into the spark plug hole. Didn't realize they were quite so deep in there. Lined up the crank gear on the timing mark after feeling compression stroke on number one. Sorry about the photos. My camera doesn't do so well when it starts getting dark.



Obviously taken from front of engine, left to right.









Looks to me like the timing is off, but I'm seeing only half a tooth off?? Maybe you guys will see it differently. Is it off? The manual is a bit unclear in the copies I got. Do you line up the crank gear on the peak where the dot is, or in the valley where the white paint is? I just went back out and rotated the timing mark on the crank gear to the valley, and each cam is off one tooth. Looks like this guy I bought the Montero from assembled this thing wrong for all 4 cams to be off.

Thanks again all,

Jay