Cobra timing help

[Rmk97]

Any help would be great!! To start the engine is out of my 97 Cobra that has just been rebuilt with all forged internals and balanced. The heads are from an 04 Cobra with the 96-98 cams. I just had the heads redone at a machine shop. they put the heads completely together and said he clocked the cams to ford specs. The problem I am having is that now installed the timing chains are about 3 teeth off of the timing marks. Do I need to compress the slack adjusters and remove the rockers before installing the chains? or could the cams be clocked wrong? Thanks for any suggestions

 

[utikid01]

When installing the timing chains the slack adjuster will pull the cams a bit out of time. Try spinning the cam's back a bit and install the timing chain if it lines up you should be good to go if not. Start over and recheck everything. Please be careful they are unforgiving, if you make a mistake its game over.

 

[Rmk97]

Thank you very much for the help. I ended up removing the rockers then setting the chains up. Everything seems to be good now.