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Swapped in the stock fuel pressure regulator and she runs like a dream! The ignition timing needs to be fine-tuned with a light but other than that, it looks like everything is in good working order! [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Yup, no laws. Originally, it was gonna be mounted on the roof. But even before I bought it I had intentions of cutting the roof off and welding in a rollbar to make a unibody truck. So a rear mount made more sense since I wouldnt have to move it. Second concern was catching it on branches, lots of low trees where I wheel hence the spring. A stainless whip would have worked since they dont snap but they were more than I was willing to pay. Third was a fluke, I ordered a 4ft antenna casue it was $2 cheaper than a 3ft antenna and it looked extra goofy, like a 5th telletubby or something lol. The cable I got was 18ft long so location wasnt an issue. And since the carpet is part of a hill somewhere now routing was as easy as screwing in some cable clamps. Ill probably affix a flag to it or something later on.

Nope, no laws against mounting up front. I have seen them mounted on the front with many cars. When I had my CB in my mom's 1990 Isuzu Trooper I had it mounted on the hood on the left side, opposite of the radio antenna. That was definitely in my field of vision there, right in front of me. I chose to mount my antenna on my Pathfinder on the upper hinge of the spare tire carrier simply because it was convenient for me and I simply liked the look of it back there. I don't have a bullbar or even good bumpers, so a good mounting point took a bit of thought since I hate putting holes in the bodies of my cars.

Shouldn’t have any threadlocker on the intake bolts. Definitely do the powervalves though

Hmmmm.. well the cam springing forward under the tension of the valve springs should not be strong enough to bend anything. Id honestly be surprised if you were able to bend a valve unless you were turning the cam sprocket with a long ratchet. It sounds more like the belt is a tooth or two off. Ive heard here about people being off a tooth and having similar problems but the knocking has me thinking its off more than one tooth. Id pop that timing cover off real quick and count the teeth on the belt between each sprocket dimple mark. The passenger cam sprocket dimple mark is around 11 o'clock and the driver cam sprocket dimple mark is around 1 o'clock, while the crank sprocket dimple mark is around 5 o'clock. Pop the belt on and keep it taut in the middle between the two cam sprockets and also keep it taut between the driver cam and the crank. The belt can be as loose as needed between the crank and passenger cam but it helps to have some tension in that area or the belt tries to jump off the passenger cam while you are trying to get the tooth count right. So with the belt on and the cam and crank sprocket dimple marks pretty close to the 11, 1, and 5 o'clock positions count the teeth (peaks) on the belt between the passenger cam sprocket dimple mark and the driver cam sprocket dimple mark. There should be 40 teeth (peaks). If you've got more (or less) than 40 teeth then move the driver cam just a little bit until you count 40 teeth between the two dimples. Then count the teeth between the driver cam sprocket dimple and the crank sprocket dimple. You should have 43 teeth. If you have more (or less) than 43 teeth then CAREFULLY and gently turn the crank the tiny amount you need to achieve 43 teeth. Once you have your tooth count 100% confirmed then set the tension and rotate the engine several times by hand before buttoning everything back up. I have tried using alignment marks on timing belts for my VG33 and have never been able to make everything line up perfectly. Its always a tooth or half a tooth off when comparing the marks on the sprockets to the marks on the rear timing cover. I found the tooth counting method and it has worked flawlessly 3 times on my QX4 (one 100k mile service, one engine swap, and one head gasket job). It has also worked on my wife's GX470 thats waaaaay scarier and legitimately harder to work on than my QX4. The stupid alignment marks and LH cam(which is actually right hand from where you work) RH cam(which is actually left hand from where you’re working) labeling is too confusing for me to confidently work around/with. I about lost my marbles trying to do my wife's timing belt and the #&$@ sprockets are labeled backwards. Like why couldn't they call them D(river)C(am) and P(assenger)C(am)??? /endrant